Ideas+for+Good+Writing

This page will be regularly updated by YOU ... it will contain an increasingly specific list of techniques and advice to remember when you are writing.

-How do you answer the claim already stated in the question without repeating what is already given to you?\ - You can expand on each part of the claim with support from the text: ie. Welty's childhood experiences affected her adulthood. --> this is the claim already given expand on: 1) childhood - librarian, mother, using juxtaposition and anecdote 2) experiences - both positive and negative experiences 3) affected - loves reading and will do anything to read
 * UNPACK THE CLAIM**


 * Writing an AP Lang Free Response- Based off George Orwell's "A Hanging"**

//Advice (Posted by Jessie Schroeder & Donna Ni)// - Answer the question! - Make reference to the context of your essay in the introduction. Don't be so hasty to explain your main ideas as to forget to include WHAT these ideas are based off. The context you provide in the introduction will serve as the background for your argument. - Use "quote bursts" when supplying evidence. (Eg. Orwell describes the jail yard to have a "sickly yellow" color to it, and "small animal cages" as cells for the prisoner.) - After giving an analysis, always return back to the original prompt and tie in WHY your analysis and evidence is relevant. (Follow ASAP!) - Always use textual evidence to support your analysis. - Use dialogue as a form of evidence. - Be careful to not repeat ideas. (W.O.I) - Don't use a "laundry list". ( Listing several ideas in order, separating each with 'also', 'in addition', "one way...another way...." etc.) - Use present tense and stick to it! - Don't waste time getting to the central point and main idea in your essay. - Begin the essay with a purpose, rather than simply restating the prompt. - Vary sentence structures. - Cross out mistakes simply. No messy scribbling. - Don't bring in main ideas from the end of the narration into the beginning of your essay, unless for a conscious purpose. - Separate two completely different ideas- don't include both in the same paragraph. Try forming a new paragraph. - Give evidence in chronological order (Don't start off by referring to the end of the passage- you will have a hard time getting back to the beginning) - Specify when and where in the passage an event occurs