Writers' Workshop#1 Writing Essays on Literary Topics
Three major stages of Thinking and Writing
- Discovering ideas
- Brainstorming and Free writing
- Building on Your Original Notes
- Raising and Answering Questions
- Using the Plus-Minus, Pro-Con, or either-or method
- Tracing Developing Patterns
- Drafting Your Essay
- Creating a Central Idea: the glue of the essay
- Creating a Thesis Statement: list the parts to be fastened together
- Writing a First Draft: use topic sentences to develop paragraphs
- Developing an Outline
- Developing and strengthening Your Essay: Revision
- Use your own order of reference( rearrange the textual details to
serve your purpose)
- Using literary materials as evidence
- Keeping to your point
- Checking development and organization
- developing and formulating your central idea
- write with your audience in mind
- Using exact, comprehensive, and forceful language
Writing a Personal Essay
- Develop a brilliant beginning
- Watching "Sliding Doors" stared by Patralw permanently changed my
view toward life.
- People call to "Old Soul" because I don't like to read trendy books
but bury myself in Mathew Arnold, Thomas Carlye and Virginia Wolfe.
- While other teenagers' role model may be a pop culture icon, mine,
however is not. From the day when Condoleeza Rice stepped into the White
House 8 years ago, she has been my inspiration and role model.
- Obama's nomination to bethe Presidential candidate has fundamentally
altered my view what a person like me can accomplish.
- I hail Columbia University's initiative to offer students course
credit when they create engineering projects to serve a community.
- Seek three topics to illustrate your central idea.
- Establish your style and tone-sense of humor, earnest, sophisticated,
confident without bragging , critical, etc.