Second Week of Intersession

Hello everyone, I hope that you all had a great three day weekend! Sadly, for us it's back to work! In the last two days of class, we met in the Computer Lab, where we went over Chapters three and four. In chapter three we learned about developing a clear and rational thesis. Your thesis statement should always have a subject and a focus, and it should not be vague, too broad, or too narrow. Then, after we finally come up with a good thesis statement, we go back to the stage one pre-writing skills, which are free writing, brainstorming, clustering, and listing. We use the pre-writing skills to help gather our thoughts and information before starting off our paper. Once we have a list of ideas and information, we can organize it by putting it into an outline. There are different kinds of outlines such as narration, exemplification, analysis by division, process analysis, and causes and effects. 

Finally, in Chapter four "The Writing Process: Stage Three - Writing/Revising/Editing", is taking stages one and two and combining it together to make a paragraph. We are taught to keep in mind this acronym "CLUESS", which stands for Coherence, Language, Unity, Emphasis, Support and Sentences. It is recommended not to stray off topic when writing your paper, and be consistent in what you are talking about. When you are finished with you paper, you must edit your draft. While you are correcting your paper look out for Capitalization, Omissions, Punctuation, and Spelling, in other words "COPS". Now that we went over all three stages of the writing process, we are able to use these techniques to improve our writing abilities!