6 Traits Of Writing
Zach Baker
Ideas
Good writing has a clear message, purpose, or focus.
- Choose a topic that interests you and fits your assignment.
- Include details such as facts, examples, and thoughts.
organization
Effective writing has a clear beginning , middle, and ending.
- Topic sentence (green)
- Main ideas with transitions (yellow)
- Details/ tell me more sentences (red)
- Conclusion (green)
Voice
The best writing reveals the writers voice- his or hers special way of saying things.
- Speak in an engaging way that keeps readers wanting more
- Show rather than tell
word choice
Good writing contains strong words, including specific nouns and verbs.
- Use specific nouns and verbs
- use exiting adverbs and adjectives
- use a thesourus
sentence fluency
Effective writing flows smoothly from one sentence to the next.
- combine short choppy sentences to longer smoother ones
- use a variety of sentence beginnings and lengths
- use simple compound, and and complex sentences
Six Traits Of Writing Model - A Review
conventions
Good writing is carefully edited to make sure it is easy to understand.
- use evaluation sheet to revise
- edit using COPS
Writing process
- prewrite
- brainstorm
- think of ideas
- compose
- rough draft
- Evaluate
- look over your writing
- revise
- put better words in you writing
- Edit
- Fix mistakes
- publish
- Sharing
Write tools
- t-table
- core 4 topic sentences
- transitions
- details/tell me more sentences(red)
- conclusion sentences (green)
- color scheme-/green/yellow/red
- main ideas (green)