1. Advise on how to take notes
The Writing Process

2. Getting Acquainted
Interview a classmate that you do not know. Find out some interesting facts about this person that you will be able to share with the class. Take notes. Your partner will also interview you.
Introduce your new friend to the class by giving this person’s name, and selecting 2 interesting facts that you learned about this person.

3. What Steps are involved in your Writing Process?
Journal Entry: My Writing Process You have an essay assignment due in one week. Describe the steps you go through from start to finish in order to complete this assignment on time.

4. Hemmingway’s Writing Process

5. The Writing Process Analyzing the Prompt/Assignment Prewriting
Drafting
Revising
Editing
If you expect to write an effective essay, you must complete all of these steps.
Writing is complicated, so break complicated activities into simpler steps and they will become easier!

6. The Writing Process
Writing is complicated, so break complicated activities into simpler steps and they will become easier!

7. How to Analyze a Prompt Color code your analysis:
Topic- Identify words that show the topic you are to write about.
Audience- Identify words that indicate who your audience is.
Position/purpose- Identify words that show that you are to take a position by stating your opinion on the topic. Your position is your purpose for writing.

8. Copy and Analyze this Prompt
What issue(s) should young voters be most concerned about? Write an essay in which you persuade people your age that dealing with these issues (no more than 3) is important to your future as adults. Use examples and evidence from your own experience, observations, and from your reading. In all drafts, underline your thesis statement. Your essay should be 2-3 pages long in MLA format.

9. Copy and Analyze this Prompt
Topic
What issue(s) should young voters be most concerned about? Write an essay in which you persuade people your age that dealing with these issues (no more than 3) is important to your future as adults. Use examples and evidence from your own experience, observations, and from your reading. In all drafts, underline your thesis statement. Your essay should be 2-3 pages long in MLA format. Note: At the college/university level, your highly educated professors are usually your audience.
What other important information does the prompt give you about how to write your essay?
Position/purpose

10. Analyze this Prompt
In the article “If there’s an inspiration deficit in our politics, blame it on the young” Lawrence Martin describes the Millennial generation as self-obsessed and too lazy to fight for change.  In his article, he explains that the youth of today are only interested in themselves.  He describes today’s youth as “lazy, vain, and entitled, apparently interested in nothing but their Idol shows, movies with tacky humor and the latest technological toys.”
In a well organized essay, explain Martin’s argument, and discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with his analysis of the Millennials. Support your position, providing reasons and examples from the readings we have studied along with your own experience and observations, Your essay should be about 2-1/2 to 3 pages long, or words, in MLA format.
Adapted from Lawrence Martin’s “If there’s an inspiration deficit in our politics, blame it on the young”

11. Analyze this Prompt
Audience
In the article “If there’s an inspiration deficit in our politics, blame it on the young” Lawrence Martin describes the Millennial generation as self-obsessed and too lazy to fight for change.  In his article, he explains that the youth of today are only interested in themselves.  He describes today’s youth as “lazy, vain, and entitled, apparently interested in nothing but their Idol shows, movies with tacky humor and the latest technological toys.”
In a well organized essay, explain Martin’s argument, and discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with his analysis of the Millennials. Support your position, providing reasons and examples from the readings we have studied along with your own experience and observations, Your essay should be about 2-1/2 to 3 pages long, or words, in MLA format.
Topic
Adapted from Lawrence Martin’s “If there’s an inspiration deficit in our politics, blame it on the young.” Are there words that you need to look up? What is your first reaction?
Position/purpose

12. Prewriting = anything you do to prepare to write a draft
includes thinking, taking notes, talking to others, brainstorming, outlining, and gathering information (e.g., interviewing people, researching in the library, assessing data).

13. Prewriting strategy -Free writing
√Look at the prompt and analyze it briefly.
For an in-class essay, analyze for no longer than 5 minutes.
Now ready? Set? Brainstorm and write. Do not edit! Keep your fingers typing or your pen moving!
After you are done, go back and read your writing. Highlight and underline certain ideas that stick out or that you have repeated.
Make a more organized list or freewrite with the good ideas you have come up with. This is now the beginning of your essay.

14. Free Write
Millennials are self obsessed and too lazy to fight for change because… or
Millennials are not narcissistic and entitled because…
Highlight something in your free write that was especially meaningful to you.
Discuss

15. Prewriting strategy- Brainstorming
Brainstorming is based on free association. This is when you let one thought naturally lead to another. When you brainstorm, you generally write a list, or cluster, or diagram, or outline.
Students will do this type of Brainstorming in the Reading part of the class

16. Prewriting Strategy- Clustering
Politics
Modern
uses
Rather than writing a free-
flowing paragraph or list of
concepts, start with a central word
As related concepts pop in your
head, indicate them as
branches, arrows, bubbles, etc.
You may have an “ah ha!”
moment
Persuasion
Communication
Rhetoric
History
Directions: Each slide is activated by a single mouse click.
Many students are visual learners and thinkers. Therefore, more visual processes of invention may help them ask questions to generate ideas, explore topics, and make connections.
Types
Ancient
Greece
Academic
Professional
What is the connection here?

17. Brainstorm

18. Brainstorm

19. Journal Entry: Clustering
Millennials

20. Prewriting Strategy: Asking Questions
Form questions using who, what, when, where, why, how.
Hint: Relating the subject to yourself can help you ask the question.
Why is this important to me?
How does it relate to me?/How does this affect me daily?
How do I feel about it? /Do I feel good/bad/indifferent about it? Why?
How might my connection to this change in the future?
How did I feel about this in the past?

21. Journal Entry -Asking Questions
Form questions related to our essay topic using who, what, when, where, why, how.
For example
What is a millennial?
How does being a millennial the way I do things?
Write 5 questions about the topic of Millennials.

22. Other Prewriting Strategies
Outlining: helpful for those who like or need a clear structure—shows the connection between ideas. Discussing ideas with others Charts: Good for weighing pros and cons or similarities and differences: When you are asked to compare two ideas, make a T-chart, create a title for each side, and list the main points side by side.

23. Charts Assignment Compare Authors
Positive fact/point about millennials ( para, #)
Negative fact/point about Millennials (para.#)
Alsop
Rosenbloom
Samuelson

24. Prewriting Review the Prewriting strategies that we used today.
Mark important ideas
Which prewriting strategy worked the best of you? Why?

26. How to ABCD a Timed Writing Prompt
A- Attack and Analyze – highlight the topic, audience, and position/purpose that you are to take. Underline commands/requirements and questions.
B- Brainstorm- use your favorite prewriting activity
C- Choose order- organize your ideas
D- Draft/Detect problems- make final revisions, proofread and edit.

27. Journal Entry -Write complete sentences
Something new that you learned today
OR something that you already knew but were glad to be reminded of today because it seemed helpful.
How will you change your writing process? What will you do differently or what will you try?
Share your response with your neighbor.