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EN111. Lessons of writing for Bay Mills Community College students. Jump starting your writing. Your first writing topic is a composition of minimum 250-500 words on what is writing like to you

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  1. EN111 Lessons of writing for Bay Mills Community College students

  2. Jump starting your writing • Your first writing topic is a composition of minimum 250-500 words on what is writing like to you • Purpose: Introduce yourself as a writer by finding creative comparisons for the act of writing (inform+entertain) Provide a writing sample that shows where your writing is at before you start this course • Audience: Your teacher and other students in the class I. Melis BMCC Fall, 2007

  3. Writing is a process • Writing does not happen automatically • It is a series of steps that every writer has to follow one way or other: • PREWRITING • PLANNING • DRAFTING • REVISING • PROOFREADING I. Melis BMCC Fall, 2007

  4. STEP ONE: PREWRITING • Think before you write! I. Melis BMCC Fall, 2007

  5. STEP TWO: PLANNING Start organizing what you have. • Cluster your ideas • Find a thesis or main idea • Make an outline Planning makes writing easy. Follow your outline like a roadmap or a blueprint. I. Melis BMCC Fall, 2007

  6. STEP THREE: DRAFTING I. Melis BMCC Fall, 2007

  7. STEP FOUR: REVISING • Revision is seeing your writing with a new pair of eyes • Set your draft aside to be able to see it as “new” • Find friendly readers • Don’t be afraid of big changes • Keep what is good I. Melis BMCC Fall, 2007

  8. STEP FIVE: PROOFREAD I. Melis BMCC Fall, 2007

  9. USING SOURCES: Paraphrasing Paraphrasing means retelling something that you read or heard in your own words: Source (police report): “The signal was red.” Paraphrasis: “The train was not allowed to proceed.” Even when you paraphrase, you need to mention your source. This is called attribution: • The police report stated that the train was not allowed to proceed. • According to the police report, the train was not allowed to proceed. I. Melis BMCC Fall, 2007

  10. USING SOURCES: Quotation When you cannot or do not wish to change the words of your source, you must set the borrow information off by quotation marks. Attribution is part of quotation: • Wikipedia defines paraphrasing as “restatement of a text or passages, using other words.” • “Paraphrase is restatement of a text or passages,” says Wikipedia. • “Paraphrase,” according to Wikipedia, “is restatement of a text or passages, using other words.” I. Melis BMCC Fall, 2007

  11. WHAT DO WE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO? • Always name your source and use a variety of verbs or phrases of attribution • Change most of the words from the source when you paraphrase • When you choose to quote, make sure • the borrowed words fit your own sentence • the borrowed words are exactly the same way as in your source • there are quotation marks around your borrowed words • Punctuation is correct • Longer quotes (longer than 40 words) are indented I. Melis BMCC Fall, 2007

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