1 / 11

PSSA Writing

PSSA Writing. How many writing domains are there? five. Which domain-facts, reasons, statistics, details, anecdotes, examples? content. Which domain-staying on topic, awareness of audience? focus.

kaipo
Download Presentation

PSSA Writing

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. PSSA Writing

  2. How many writing domains are there? • five

  3. Which domain-facts, reasons, statistics, details, anecdotes, examples? • content

  4. Which domain-staying on topic, awareness of audience? • focus

  5. Which domain-strong verbs and adjectives, variety of sentence types and lengths, voice (personality)? • style

  6. Which domain-order, beginning, middle end, transition words? • organization

  7. Which domain- spelling, capitalization, punctuation, correct homophones? • conventions

  8. In an introduction never… • say, “I will be writing about, hi, my name is.”

  9. In your conclusion never… • say “I hope you liked, the end, that’s my essay about…” • introduce new information.

  10. Never start sentences with… • F.A.N.B.O.Y.S.-for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.

  11. Besides spelling, what can you do to check conventions? • Check to make sure you have the correct homophone. • Make sure each sentence has a capital letter. • Make sure each sentence has an end mark. • Make sure proper nouns/adjectives are capitalized. • Make sure you’ve checked comma usage.

More Related