WRD 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Apple Pie, Free Writing, Counterargument

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1) narrow your topic: focus on some aspect of the topic that interests you. 2)express your main idea: write a thesis that expresses the main idea of the essay. 3) develop your supporting ideas: find facts, examples, or anecdotes that best support your main idea. 4)make a plan: organize your main and supporting ideas and place your ideas in a plan or outline. 5) write your first draft: communicate your ideas in a single written piece. Thesis: a statement in which a writer affirms or defends the specific idea that will focus or organize a paper: no thesis, no forward motion. Write a declarative sentence, not a question. Write it to fit your audience and purpose. Announcement: i will write about part time jobs. Vague: beauty is becoming more important in our culture. Invalid point: beauty is more important than it was in the past. Too narrow: obama was elected in 2008.

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