Six Traits of Writing

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Six Traits of Writing
Conventions Voice Sentence Structure
Ideas and Content Organization Word Choice
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Conventions

• -Using correct punctuation, capitalization,
  spelling, and grammar
• -Using complete sentences
• -Indenting paragraphs

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Voice

• -Showing your personality in your writing
• -Writing for a specific audience
• -Telling the reader how you feel about the topic

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Content and Ideas

• -Writing about 1 narrow topic
• -Presenting a clear main idea
• -Including supporting details

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Organization

• -Including an introduction/lead, body paragraphs,
  and a conclusion
• -Using transitions to move between ideas
• -Using a logical order of ideas

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Word Choice

• -Using a variety of interesting words
• -Fully explaining the idea

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Sentence structure

• Using a variety of sentence lengths
• -Using a variety of words in sentences
• -Using a variety of sentence structures

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