Organization & Ideas

What is Organization?

• The way your essay looks on paper

• The structure of your essay

• How you write an essay

What simple organizational system should every essay follow?

• Write, Edit, Rewrite

• Introduction, Body, Conclusion

• Create, Format, Review

What is the first step when organizing an essay?

• Write your conclusion first

• Write about whatever comes to your mind

• Focus on your introduction

• Start working on the information found the the body

Good introductions have all of these characteristics EXCEPT...

• Poses a question to the audience

• Presents crucial information about the topic

• Clearly states what the article is about

• Gives no information about the chosen topic

What are the correct definitions of pacing and sequencing?

• Pacing: How fast or slow you present your information

• Pacing: the ability to put your writing in a clear order

• Sequencing: How fast or slow you present your information

• Sequencing: the ability to put your writing in a clear order

What is the main purpose of writing a conclusion?

• To show off your findings

• To answer a question

• To restate and summarize information for the audience

• To prove you were right

Ideas should be...

• Interesting for the audience

• Include many supporting details

• Anything that can be written about

• Clear, well researched, and informative

What are ideas?

What does it mean when we say ideas are 'centralized'

• They are focused on one component at a time

• They have multiple diverging ideas

• There is more than one idea present

• The idea is complicated

Overall, ideas should be...

• Interesting

• Informative

• Organized

• Complete