600 Writing: Overview of Course

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600 Writing Overview of Course

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• Organization of Course The writing portion of
  this course concentrates on teaching students how
  to write both in formal and informal tone in
  timed and un-timed situations.
• Essay 1 untimed, informal
• Essay 2 untimed, formal
• Essay 3 timed, informal
• Essay 4 untimed, formal
• Essay 5 - timed, informal to formal
• Principles of Effective Writing

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• Principles of Effective Writing Purpose,
  Audience and Tone
• I. Purpose to give new information and/or new
  detail/support to the audience
• Audience the reader. The student doesnt know
  what the reader knows and doesnt know so in
  order to meet purpose, the reader needs to answer
  the question before writing What do most people
  know about the topic?
• III. Tone the writers voice
• Informal___________________________Formal

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• Tone (Continued)
• Tone - subjective vs. objective
• Subjective the goal is to share personal
  thoughts and feelings. In the article The
  Lesson by Nathan McCall, he recounts his first
  experience with racism when he attended a school
  that used to be segregated. From the Sundance
  Reader
• Objective usually use to present the writer as
  not involved, neutral.

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• IV. Principles of Effective Writing
  Organization/Rhetorical Structure
• A. Definition of Rhetorical Structure the way
  a group of people think or organize information
  in a language
• 1.Chronological Order usually a story

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• Chronological Order Presenting an Effective
  Story Needs to be a specific moment in time

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• Chronological Order Presenting an Effective
  Story Needs to be long enough to share

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• Chronological Order Presenting an Effective
  Story Need to consider why you want to share it

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• Sample Chronological Paper Overcoming an
  Obstacle (Handout)