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    English Composition & Style: a QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide
    English Composition & Style: a QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide
    English Composition & Style: a QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide
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    English Composition & Style: a QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide

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    Best-selling guide and essential reference for 20 years, designed to support the composition and style in writing essays and papers. The answers you need for the elements of good writing in forming ideas for the right audience with unity and coherence are here in just six laminated pages. Succinct and to the point, the focus and design of this guide gives you the facts you need so you can review quickly and spend more time on the task of writing. Great writing is a gateway to better grades in any subject as well as a huge influence on career advancement. With more answers per page than any book or website, and at this price, this proven tool that has helped so many for so long is a must have.
    6 page laminated guide includes:
    • Purpose or Reason for Writing
    • Defining the Audience
    • Establishing Clarity
    • Organizing for Unity
    • Integrating Ideas for Coherence
    • Composing an Essay:
    • Analyze the Prompt/Assignment/Writing Task & Choose a Focus
    • Create a Working Thesis or Claim
    • Construct an Outline
    • Writing a Draft
    • Peer or Instructor Reading & Conference
    • Revising the Draft
    • Edit the Final Draft
    • Review an Example of a Model Essay
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarCharts, Inc.
    Release dateNov 30, 2009
    ISBN9781423212072
    English Composition & Style: a QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide

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      English Composition & Style - BarCharts, Inc.

      UNDERSTAND THE ELEMENTS OF GOOD WRITING

      Purpose

      Define a purpose or reason for writing. A clear purpose will help you organize your composition and select relevant information. There are five basic purposes for writing:

      To describe: Use sensory details to create a mental image of an event, a person, an object, or a setting.

      Describe Claude Monet’s lily pond and flower gardens at his home in Giverny. Describe architectural styles in St. Augustine, Florida. Describe the physical appearance and body language of a trial witness.

      To entertain: Use sequence, dialogue, and sensory details to tell a fictional or nonfictional story.

      Narrate an autobiographical incident that yielded an important life lesson. Narrate a significant biographical incident in the life of a famous humanitarian. Create a story that conveys an important theme about environmental con­servation.

      To explain: Use steps to tell readers how to complete a process, or use points and examples to analyze or interpret an issue.

      Explain how to change the ink in a printer. Analyze governmental funding for AIDS research over the past decade. Interpret themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.

      To inform: Use facts and statistics to convey information.

      Tell about Martin Luther posting his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. Tell about the stock market crash in 1929. Tell about an archaeological excavation in Greece.

      To persuade: Use reasons and evidence to convince readers to agree with an opinion by acting or changing their thinking.

      Alert citizens to the dangers of urban crime, and persuade them to start neigh­borhood watch programs. Convince readers that capital punishment does not serve a social need. Argue that further precautions are necessary in professional sports to avoid player concussions.

      Audience

      Define the audience for your writing. With a clear audience in mind, you will be able to choose appropriate language and relevant information.

      Checklist: Use this series of questions to define and analyze your audience:

      Is the audience an individual or a group? Is the group specific or general?

      What are the demographic features (age, gender, socioeconomic status, religion, politics, education, etc.) of the audience?

      What does the audience already know about the topic? What does the audience need to know about the topic? Does the audience have misconceptions about the topic?

      What is the relationship between the writer and the audience (e.g., employer/employee or teacher/student)?

      How is the audience likely to respond to the writing (e.g., with friendliness, suspicion, or hostility)?

      Is specialized or technical language necessary to discuss the topic? Should definitions be added for clarity?

      What do you want the audience to do? How do you want the audience to change

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