GEN 001 - SAS # 3 - 7

• Purposive Communication

  -a flow of information or exchange of messages guided by an awareness of intent and context
• Inform: Informative communication is sharing knowledge in an objectiveand unbiased manner.
• Persuade: Persuasive communication is attempting to change the belief of others.
• Narrate: narrative communication is sharing a sequence of events, usually to tell how a problematic situation is resolved.
• Express emotion: Affective communication is sharing positive or negative feelings and opinions about things, event, and as, ense
• Entertain and create: Imaginative communication is making up ideas and stories.
• A paragraph is a sequence of sentences all related to a single topic. Anything you write that is longer than a few sentences should be organized into paragraphs.
• Paragraphs show a reader where subtopics in an essay, report, or article begin and end.
• Paragraphs help the reader see how a long piece of writing is organized and thus be able to understand the main ideas.
• How many sentences are in a paragraph?

  The length can vary. For this lesson and next few lessons, we will be practicing with the 5-6 sentence paragraph that has 1 topic, 1 claim (main idea, 3 supporting evidences, and 1 conclusion.
• How do you write a cohesive paragraph?

  First, brainstorm. Identify your topic. Decide on your claim. List the evidences that support your claim.
• Topic

  1. Title of the Story
  2. Author
  3. Brief Summary
• Claim: How well did you like the story?
• Evidences: Specify examples like: elements of the story - characters, plot, setting, Theme & Artistic Elements
• Prewriting:

  Identifing the Audience

  Defining Purpose

  Thinking

  Discussing

  Gathering Ideas

  Reading/Annotating

  Freewriting

  Outlining
• Drafting:

  Revise & Peer Review

  Sequencing ideas

  Organization

  Rethinking

  Supporting

  Concise Word Choice

  Audience/Purpose
• Editing:

  Grammar

  Punctuation

  Spelling

  Formatting

  In-text Citation

  Work Cited/Bibliography
• Publishing:

  In-Class

  Online
• Revision is the recurrent process of writing and re-writing.
• Editing focuses more on stylistic and grammatical facts.