TAP
After you've read the writing situation and directions what is the first thing you should do?
TAP
Name two types of writing
Letter, news article, editorial, email, speech
Why is understanding who the audience is important?
Answers vary: In order to know who you are writing to and what tone you should use
If you have to convince your audience, your purpose is to?
Argue
The purpose of pre-writing is
Organize your ideas
What does TAP stand for?
Type, Audience, Purpose
If you are told to write a letter, what do you need to include to make sure it looks like a letter to the person scoring your writing?
Greeting, Salutation, body, address if given
If your audience is the governor or school board you should write formally or informally?
Formally
If you have to share what you saw, heard, smelled, tasted, touched, said, thought, did your purpose would be?
Write a narrative
Name two types of pre-writing you may use
Make an outline
Make a web
Create a Venn Diagram/Graphic organizer
Make a list
Why is TAP important?
Answers vary: In order to make sure you are meeting all the expectations of the prompt
What is the T: Write an article for your school newspaper telling the benefits of recycling. Explain how this will help your school and the environment.
Article
Where do you find the audience?
Writing directions
Name the three purposes for writing
Inform, Argue, Narrate
How may you start your introduction?
Quote, anecdote, question
What tells you how to write?
Writing directions
What is the T:
Situation: Leaders in your town have a plan to build an exercise center for local families. It will have basketball courts, exercise rooms, and an Olympic-sized swimming pool. They will need more money, though, to put this plan into action.
Writing Task: Write an editorial to your local newspaper. Persuade your neighbors and local businesses to donate money to help build this exercise center. Help them see how this would benefit the people in your county.
Editorial
Who is the A:
Situation: Leaders in your town have a plan to build an exercise center for local families. It will have basketball courts, exercise rooms, and an Olympic-sized swimming pool. They will need more money, though, to put this plan into action.
Writing Task: Write a letter to your local newspaper. Persuade your neighbors and local businesses to donate money to help build this exercise center. Help them see how this would benefit the people in your county.
Neighbors and local businesses
What is the P:
Situation: Leaders in your town have a plan to build an exercise center for local families. It will have basketball courts, exercise rooms, and an Olympic-sized swimming pool. They will need more money, though, to put this plan into action.
Writing Task: Write a letter to your local newspaper. Persuade your neighbors and local businesses to donate money to help build this exercise center. Help them see how this would benefit the people in your county.
Persuade your neighbors and local businesses to donate money to help build this exercise center
How should you connect ideas in your writing?
Transitions
What tells you why you are writing?
Writing situation
What is T?
Writing situation: Your school board is considering a new regulation. It would deny attendance to any student who is not fully immunized against preventable diseases, as recommended by organizations such as the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Is this a good idea or not? Should the school mandate immunizations? Or is it up to the individual?
Writing directions:
Read the passages about immunization. Choose your position on the issue. Then write a letter to the school board stating whether they should turn away students who are not fully immunized. Use evidence from the articles to support your argument.
Letter
Who is the A?
Writing situation: Your school board is considering a new regulation. It would deny attendance to any student who is not fully immunized against preventable diseases, as recommended by organizations such as the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Is this a good idea or not? Should the school mandate immunizations? Or is it up to the individual?
Writing directions:
Read the passages about immunization. Choose your position on the issue. Then write a letter to the school board stating whether they should turn away students who are not fully immunized. Use evidence from the articles to support your argument.
School board
What is the P?
Writing situation: Your school board is considering a new regulation. It would deny attendance to any student who is not fully immunized against preventable diseases, as recommended by organizations such as the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Is this a good idea or not? Should the school mandate immunizations? Or is it up to the individual?
Writing directions:
Read the passages about immunization. Choose your position on the issue. Then write a letter to the school board stating whether they should turn away students who are not fully immunized. Use evidence from the articles to support your argument.
Argument stating whether the school board should turn away students who are not fully immunized.
What must be included in your introduction to state your point?
Thesis