The 6 Traits Of Writing
Chris Banwart
The 6 Traits of Writing
Ideas
- chose a topic that interests you and fits the assignment
- include details such as facts, statistics, examples, and thoughts/feelings
Organization
- top sentences are highlighted in green
- main ideas are highlighted in yellow and should have transitions
- detail(tell me more sentences) are highlighted in red
- conclusions (like topic sentences) are highlighted in green
Sentence Fluncey
- combine short choppy sentences and make into large smoother one
- use a variety of sentence beginnings and lengths
- use simple, compound, and complex sentences
Writing Process
Brainstorming
Think of ideas to use on Paragraph/essay
Prewriting
Organizing thoughts and making them into sentences
Compose Rough Draft
Take the sentences and put them into parts of a paragraph
Evaluation
look at the ol' rough draft search for parts that could be changed into more "juicy" words
Revision
You know the errors you found when doing evaluation now write that stuff on your paper
Editing
Well the name speaks for its self but unlike revisions you look for sentence lengths and stuff like that.
Publishing and sharing
Now what you've been working hard for The finishing draft type or write it the best you can using the revisions then share your masterpeice
Write Tools
^The t table organizes ideas ^
on the left side you have you main sentences and on the right side you have tell me more sentences
Core 4 topic sentences
a cross and on each quad of the cross write a topic with a question, a number, simple, and a situation/stance.
Highlighted in: green
transitions
each main idea should start with a transition like: next, also, and another.
Main Ideas
The name really says it all its the main ideas of the paragraph
Highlighted in: yellow
Details/tell me mores
These sentences tell more about the main ideas the "juicy" stuff
Highlighted in: red
The Concluison
These sentences end the paragraph and they basically say the beginning over again and most of the time they are the core 4 topic sentences.