6 Traits of Writing
Mattie Hansen
Ideas
- Choose a topic that interest you and fits your assignment.
- Include details such as facts, statics, examples, and thoughts/ feelings
Word Choice
- Use specific nouns and verbs
- Use exciting adverbs/ adjectives
- Use a Thesaurus
Voice
- Speak in an engaging way that keeps the reader wanting more!
- Show instead of tell.
Sentence Fluency
- Combine short, sloppy sentences
- Use a variety of sentence lenghths
- Use simple complex
Conventions Rockin' the Six Traits of Writing
Editing
Editing is when you check your work, or fix your mistakes.
Brain Storming
Brain Storming is when you sit down and think of different topics or ideas to talk about.
Prewriting
Prewriting is when you do a first draft instead of doing the nice draft right away.
Rough Draft
A rough draft is your very first paper before you start doing the writing process on it.
Publishing
Publishing is when you publish your final draft.
Revising
Revising is when you skim and scan over your work, or just read through your paragraph carefully.
Evaluation
Brake down your writing, and look for flaws.
Organization
- Topic sentence (green)
- Main ideas, transitions ( yellow)
- Detain tell me more sentence (red)
- conclusion (green)
Main Ideas
The main idea is the main topic.
Details
The detail is the tell me more.
Conclusion
A conclusion is summing up everything you have done.
Transitions
Transitions are, phrases, number statements, starter words.
Core Four Topic Sentences
Simple sentence, number statement, question, situation stance.