1. ON-DEMAND WRITING

2. WHAT IS IT?

3. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE? NARRATES PERSUADES INFORMS RESPONDS
IS STATED IN THE PROMPT

4. WHO IS THE AUDIENCE?
SPECIFIC
REAL WORLD
WILL BE STATED IN PROMPT

5. WHAT IS THE FORM? SPEECH ARTICLE LETTER EDITORIAL
WILL BE STATED IN THE PROMPT

6. HOW MUCH TIME IS ALLOWED?
60 minutes

7. HOW IS IT SCORED?
ANALYTICALLY
READ AND THEN GIVEN NOVICE, APPRENTICE, PROFICIENT, DISTINGUISHED

8. TIPS: Look for audience, purpose, and form stated in the prompt
Focus on the specific audience and accomplishing the purpose by developing ideas with specific support.

9. SPEECH Decide audience and purpose (in prompt)
Introduction—identify audience
Catch reader’s attention
Give audience a preview of what you are speaking about
Write body
Give main points
Support with relevant facts, statistics, examples

10. SPEECH CON’T Conclusion Make shocking statement Give a startling fact
Make a forceful statement
Refer back to introduction

11. FEATURE ARTICLE
Answers a how or why question about a real event issue or trend that the writer and reader care about.
Used to inform or entertain
Specific audience based on the publication
Looks like a newspaper article
Lead-grabs attention
Body-presents main points and examples to support

12. Feature Article con’t Conclusion
Leave reader with something to think about
Something to act upon
Something to agree with or smile about
Connect back to lead and make point again

13. LETTER
Formal communication between writer and a business or professional person
Persuades, requests, responds, or narrates
Audience is a specific business or named person

14. Letter Format Heading---street address, city, state, ZIP, date
Inside address—name of person you are writing, his/her title, address, city, state, ZIP
Salutation—greeting followed by a courtesy or professional title and person’s name
Introduction—identifies purpose for letter
Body—present and support your main points in a well-organized manner with a blank line between each paragraph

15. Letter Format Con’t Closing—courteous ending such as “Sincerely”
Signature—sign your full name then print your name below signature

16. EDITORIAL
Expresses the writer’s opinion about a current topic of interest
Purpose is to interpret a situation, to criticize, to persuade, to inform, or to entertain
Audience is the readership of a certain newspaper

17. FORMAT FOR EDITORIAL Looks like a newspaper article
Lead—catches reader’s attention
Body—presents your main points and supports them with logical evidence
Considers opposing opinions and respectfully addresses them
Conclusion—leave your readers with something to think over, act upon, or agree with

18. Scoring of ON-Demand Based on: Purpose/Audience
Idea Development/Support
Organization
Sentence structure
Use of correct language for the content
Correctness of spelling, punctuation, capitalization, documentation

19. WRITING TIPS READ BOTH PROMPTS CAREFULLY IDENTIFY PURPOSE AND AUDIENCE
CHOOSE ONE YOU CAN WRITE THE MOST ABOUT.
PREWRITE TO GATHER IDEAS
ORGANIZE IN LOGICAL MANNER

20. WRITING TIPS CON’T
BE SURE TO IDENTIFY CORRECT FORM FOR WRITING (speech, article, letter, editorial)
USE DICTIONARY AND/OR THESAURUS TO IMPROVE SPELLING AND WORD CHOICE
WRITE USING THE LANGUAGE APPROPRIATE FOR THE AUDIENCE

21. WRITING TIPS CON’T PROOFREAD
Be sure you are saying what you intended to
Be sure that your sentence structure is correct
Be sure you have included all your ideas
Be sure it reads in a coherent manner
Look up any word you think you may have misspelled
Be sure if you used “thesaurus” words that they are appropriate for what you want to say (don’t just throw in big words—sometimes simple is better)

22. SAMPLE PROMPT 1 SITUATION
When facing a new experience, everyone tends to react differently.  Some people become anxious, some get frightened, and some people face new experiences calmly. Knowing how others have dealt with new experiences can better prepare us for similar situations.

23. Sample Prompt con’t TASK
Write an article for the school newspaper narrating a time you faced a new experience and how you dealt with it.

24. SAMPLE PROMPT 2 SITUATION
Latest Fashion. Video Games. CD's. Computer Software.  Everyone gets caught up at one time or another with wanting new things.  Maurice Sendak, author of the children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, believes the following:
"There must be more to life than having everything." 

25. Sample Prompt con’t TASK
Write an editorial for your school newspaper persuading the readers to support your opinion in regard to this quote.