Exploring a Topic
Among the most important parts of the writing process.
What is choosing a topic?
Contains a topic and a comment.
What is a working thesis?
Describe current situation and/or possible solutions.
What is in a body draft?
Keep the paragraphs focus on one idea
What is Unity?
Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
What is asking questions about the topic?
It is potentially interesting to the intended audience.
What is a successful working thesis characteristic?
Includes a restated thesis or summary of your argument.
What is in a conclusion?
Hold the reader’s interest while exploring your topic fully
What is development?
Writing for 10 minutes without stopping to see what ideas you come up with.
What is Freewrite?
It is as specific as possible.
What is a successful working thesis characteristic?
Give background of the topic, or purpose of writing.
What is an introduction?
makes your essay more digestible for your audience
What is Coherence?
writing your topic on a sheet of paper and then writing related thoughts near the topic idea.
What is clustering?
It limits the topic enough to make it manageable.
What is a successful working thesis characteristic?
Working out a narrative or argument in visual form.
What is storyboarding?
organization, Repetition, Parallel Structure
What is Coherence?
Writing key words or phrases about the topic and see what they prompt you to think about further.
What is Brainstorm?
Academic and Professional writing often contain this.
What is an explicit thesis statement?
Is to be flexible
What is the first principle of a successful draft?
Unity, Development, Coherence
What is the 3 qualities essential to any paragraph?