lecture slides for Great Writing 3 Unit 2

Unit 2 Elements of Good Writing

1. Purpose: (Inform, Persuade, Entertain)

What was the purpose of your homework paragraph?

2. Audience (Who? Tone? )

3. Clarity (be descriptive or precise and use clear pronouns)

4. Unity (everything is related)

5. Coherence (logical order, repetition of key words, good transitional words and phrases)

Unit 2 (p. 31) Five Elements of Good

Writing

1. Purpose: (Page 33-34) What was the purpose of your homework

paragraph? 2. Audience (Page 35) 3. Clarity (Page 38)4. Unity (Page 45) 5. Coherence (Page 48)

Recognizing person: Who is “you”?

If you want to be healthy, you should exercise

Don’t change the person in a sentence or paragraph.

Look at Page 36 Activity 3. Correct the sentences.

Audience Page 36-37

Tone: Formal and informal “Person”

Formal: Third, FirstInformal: First or second

First: I Second: YouThird: One, he, she, they, people

Page 37 - Tone and Audience

Activity 10

Check to see if the pronouns are clear and change them to make the sentences clearer.

Page 43 Clarity (pronoun reference)

Study those common transition words and phrases. Use them in your next paragraph.

Page 49 Common Transitions

1. Give examples

2. Add information

first (second), next, at the same time

and, next, in addition

finally, after, before

in contrast, by comparison

for example, for instance

obviously, without a doubt

4. Show time

3. Compare/Contrast

7. Summarize

6. Show Sequence

5. Emphasize

therefore, thus, in conclusion

Take a breakRead aloudRead backwardsCover your workPretend you are someone else

P. 50 Proofreading strategies

Note: A paragraph can have a title but it’s not necessary. But an essay will always have one.

1. Go to: http://www.pbase.com/davesperling/seoul1 and choose or download a picture of a Korean person.

2. Imagine that person is you. Write a letter to your friend or family telling them about your life. (Imagine you live in a new city far away). Be sure to write in informal tone.

3. Write a new paragraph about the person in the photo. Imagine you are writing a short biography for that person for a magazine. Make the writing formal in style.

In-Class Writing Activity

Read your partner’s paragraphs.

How did you like your partner’s story? Tell them something you liked.

Can you find any confusing pronoun references?

Can you find any errors of tone (formal vs. informal)?

Exchange your paragraphs with your group or partner.

Page 51 (Build your vocabulary)Page 52 (Collocations) If you want to get ahead, we will start Unit 3

next week. We will focus on writing a Classification Paragraph.

Homework