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Writing Strategies

Published on Jan 19, 2016

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APPEAL TO EMOTION

  • Connect on an emotional level...feelings
  • Sympathy and empathy
  • Mad, sad, glad, fab
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SONG LYRICS AND POETIC DEVICES

  • Quote a song or poem
  • Use rhyme/rhythm
  • Play with word puns-alliteration-assonance-simile/metaphor
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SUMMARIZING MAIN POINTS

  • Essential facts : major points
  • Paragraph=topic for clincher sentence
  • 5 paragraph essay= thesis statement or restatemaent
  • Don't be redundant
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USING SUSPENCE

  • Give hints and clues but not all of the info....
  • Tease audience....
  • Cliffhanger
  • Be sure to give all info by the end
  • Answer throughout....
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REFERENCE TO TIME OCCASION OR EVENT

  • Occasion:special ones, like hoildays and birthdays
  • Event:sports, concert, parties, plays, festivals
  • Time:"remember the time...." Personal or historical
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USING STORIES

  • Everyone loves a good story, so tell one
  • Some long and detailed......
  • Some short and sweet
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FACTS AND STATS

  • Facts-vaildate what you say or write.
  • Cite your sources for even more credit
  • Stats=statistics
  • Give your audience the numbers
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VISUALIZATION OF THE PAST, PRESENT, FURTURE

  • Picture this!
  • Draw a picture with words
  • Ask audience to visualize it
  • Past=go back in time or history
  • Present=set the scene/future=move forward in tme
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MOTTOS AND MANTRAS

  • Words to live by
  • Adoges=wise saying;proverbs
  • Mottos and mantras are good to have,they keep us focused
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THANK YOU STATEMENTS

  • People like to be thanked
  • People like to feel appreciated
  • Thank people!
  • Thank you statements work well in speech conclusion
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VISUAL AIDS

  • Eye catches focus audience
  • V.A.S enliven, enhance, emphasize
  • Make V.A.S big and bold, so people can see
  • Don't pass V.A.S around
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ISSUING A CHALLENGE OR CALL TO ACTION

  • If you want someone to do something, ask!
  • Challenge people!
  • Call them to action
  • Be clear and specific about your respect!
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HUMOR OR JOKES

  • Fun/funny, but be careful
  • Be approprite
  • Don't offend people
  • Make sure it's fun/funny
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ASKING QUESTIONS

  • Get audience thinking
  • Engage people
  • If appropriate, let audience answer
  • Rhetorical ?'s=need not answer them became it is implied or obvious
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PERSONAL REFERENCE

  • People are interested in other people
  • Let them get to know you
  • Tell them about yourself
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APPEAL TO SELF-INTEREST OF AUDIENCE

  • Talk directly to people in the audience
  • "You..."
  • Things that motivate:competition, love, fun, learning, freedom, food, choice
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TRANSITIONS

  • Make language flow
  • Appear everywhere
  • Words, phrases, even whole sentence
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SHOCKING OR STARTLING STATEMENTS

  • Dramatic effect gains audience attention quick
  • Be sensible
  • As always, be appropriate
  • Exaggeration/ hyperbole...
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REVELATION OF SUBJECT AND PURPOSE

  • The opposite of suspense; tell right away
  • Subject=what
  • Purpose=why
  • What are you talking about and why
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CAUSE AND EFFECT

  • A relationship between actions or events, so one is the result of the other
  • If....then...
  • Cause=what
  • Effect=what happened
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COMPARE OR CONTRAST

  • Compare= how 2+ things are alike, the same, similar
  • Compare:sons= similarities
  • Contrast=how 2+ things are not alike or differences
  • Contrasts=differences
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COMMON LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT

  • Use common terms and language known within the topic
  • Use language related to the topic.thats context
  • Common/context language=words that relate
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PARAPHRASE

  • In writing:use your own words, but still cite the text(book, poem, short story...)
  • With people:be sure to get it right! Don't put words into other peoples mouth...
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USING QUOTATIONS

  • Quote the words of others word for word, and use quotation marks
  • He/she said,.....
  • Quote experts, friends, family, characters, etc....
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