Writers' Workshop#1 Writing Essays on Literary Topics

Three major stages of Thinking and Writing

  1. Discovering  ideas
  2. Drafting Your Essay
  3. Developing and strengthening Your Essay: Revision
  4. Checking development and organization
  5. Using exact, comprehensive, and forceful language

 

Writing a Personal Essay

  1. Develop a brilliant beginning
  2. Seek three topics to illustrate your central idea.
  3. Establish your style and tone-sense of humor, earnest, sophisticated, confident without bragging , critical, etc.