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Composing: Creating a Topic sentence and Draft paragraph

Composing: Creating a Topic sentence and Draft paragraph. DS 014 Writing Weston. Today’s Agenda. Sign-In Composing Defined Developing Topic Sentences Solid Support Reader-Centered Sentences Audience Analysis Creating a Rough Draft/First Draft Evaluating a First Draft Assignment

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Composing: Creating a Topic sentence and Draft paragraph

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  1. Composing: Creating a Topic sentence and Draft paragraph DS 014 Writing Weston

  2. Today’s Agenda • Sign-In • Composing Defined • Developing Topic Sentences • Solid Support • Reader-Centered Sentences • Audience Analysis • Creating a Rough Draft/First Draft • Evaluating a First Draft • Assignment • Coming Up…

  3. What is composing? • In composing, we start putting our ideas into a form that resembles our final product. • We use the best ideas from our pre-writing and assemble them into a topic sentence, supporting ideas (body), and a conclusion.

  4. Developing Topic Sentences • The topic sentence contains the main idea of the paragraph. • Usually it comes first. • To develop a topic sentence— • Clarify what is to be emphasized. • Express your focus. • Successful topic sentences have… • A topic • The writer’s attitude or reaction to the topic

  5. Examples of Topic Sentences • Planning a vacation can be stressful because there are so many things to think about. • College is difficult to adjust to but there are some key things a new college student can do to make it through the first year. • Tuna is a great food to eat while studying.

  6. Solid support • Support sentence make up the body of the paragraph. • These sentences illustrate or further explain your topic. • Select details that most support your topic and approach to the topic. • Use your prewriting and pick out what would be best to use.

  7. Reader-centered sentences • Writing “writer-centered” sentences can be problematic because, while you (as writer) know what they mean, your reader may not understand. • To make your work “reader-centered,” you need to fully express your ideas, making sure to “flesh out” the details so that your intended reader can grasp the meaning.

  8. Audience Analysis • Audience Analysis is what writers use to better understand for whom they’re writing. • Audience Analysis questions… • Who am I writing this for? • What do they already know about this topic? • What do they need to know about this topic? • What would help them better understand? • What kind of language should I use?

  9. For our paragraphs • Let’s take 10 minutes to quickly do an audience analysis for our upcoming paragraphs. • Think of your audience as being your classmates and teacher. • What do we know about your topic? • What do you want us to know that we don’t already?

  10. Rough draft/first draft • A first draft is a complete version of your paragraph. • The rough draft is for your eyes only. • Once you’ve looked it over and corrected noticeable errors, you have an official first draft.

  11. Evaluating a First draft • Look at the topic sentence— • Does it make your point clearly? • How is the body organized? • 3 methods to organize information in a paragraph— • Chronologically—order of time • Spatially—order of where things are in relationship to each other • Emphatically—order of strength or importance

  12. Assignment • Take your topic’s prewriting from Wednesday’s class. • Write a topic sentence. • Write at least three supporting sentences (remember, you can use time, space, or importance to organize). • Let me see it before you leave.

  13. Coming Up… • Friday • Revising • Chapter 4 in Paragraphs • Bring in Draft of Paragraph • Wednesday • Description • Chapter 6 in Paragraphs • Description Paragraph Assigned Fall Break—We won't have class Monday due to the Fall Break.

  14. Have a great weekend and break!

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