Friday, January 23, 2009

This I Believe

There are several items in the Pacing Guide that apply to the "This I Believe Essay". First off, using and understanding figerative language. Few essays use no figurative language and thus comprehension of and proper use of will be needed. Planning, brainstorming, or evaluating is a necessity when writing. One must follow a rubric and therefore should plan around it involving all essential information. It is others who will be reading your work and it is others who will critique your work. Allowing for a variety of people to edit or review your work will help improve the writing. Including strategies and rhetorical devices can organize written work. Use things such as audience, purpose, content, occasion, and format.

1 comment:

  1. Needs some meat. look at amoellerblogfolio.blogspot.com ... read his This I Believe & The Lady or the Tiger to get an idea how to break down the technical text and connect it to our assignments

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