RNW 11: WRITING PROCESS AND THESIS STATEMENT

prewriting

It pertains to the different techniques that help you discover ideas before writing the first draft of the paper.

• do know the kind of paper youre writing

• do determine the writing situation

• do identify your purpose for writing

the do’s of prewriting

• dont critique your ideas

• dont forget to recognize your audience/readers

the dont’s of prewriting

• purpose

• audience

• topic

• tone

PATT

purpose

your reasoning for writing

audience

for whom you are writing for

topic

• The subject or specific issue

• It should be interesting and relevant

• Your expertise for credibility

tone

• Attitude and feelings you want to reflect in your writing.

• Shown through POV, sentence structure, and word choice

• brainstorming/listing

• clustering/mapping

• freewriting

prewriting strategies

brainstorming/listing

• One of the better and more popular methods of discovering your writing topic

• Its aim is to provide yourself with as many choices for your topic as possible

clustering/mapping

Start by writing a word at the center and think of other words related to the main topic, write them down and encircle them and draw lines connecting them to the main topic

freewriting

• Writing down your thoughts nonstop, in the exact order, language, and form in that you think them

• Uses the force of narration to draw a stream of ideas out of the writer’s mind

• informal

• formal

2 types of tones

informal tone

It is a tone used when the people you conserve with are close to you

formal tone

It is a tone that is used when you converse to a stranger or someone who has a higher authority than you. It’s usually used when writing emails or letters

thesis statement

• it is the central idea of an essay

• it reflects your purpose for writing

• it reveals your attitude towards a particular topic

• It should be comprehensive yet concise because you will be spending the rest of the paper providing your point

working thesis statement

• An argument containing your stand and what you intend to prove with evidence in the essay

• It is called such that you may have to adjust your thesis statement depending on your research and writing.

• avoid making overly opinionated stands

• avoid making announcements

• avoid stating only facts

guidelines on writing a thesis statement

• argumentative

• expository

• analytical

types of thesis statements

argumentative

A type of thesis statement that presents a debatable stance about a topic.

expository

A type of thesis statement that aims to simply explain a topic.

analytical

A type of thesis statement that aims to deeply analyze a topic.