Odyssey A Guide to Better Writing

I. STARTING OUT. 1. Ensuring Success in Writing. Overview: Understanding the Importance of Good Writing. Recognizing the Dynamics of Writing. Understanding the Basic Components of Writing. Focusing on the Reader. Understanding the Purpose Behind Your Writing. Recap: Ensuring Success in Writing. 2. Generating Ideas Through Prewriting. Overview: Seeing Prewriting as a Way to Explore Ideas. Understanding Prewriting. Freewriting. Brainstorming. Clustering. Branching. Idea Mapping. Maintaining a Journal. 3. Composing: Creating a Draft. Overview: Understanding Composing. Recognizing the Structure of a Paragraph. Focusing a Topic. Writing a Clear, Specific Topic Sentence. Providing the Best Support for the Topic Sentence. Deciding on the Most Effective Arrangement. Making Your Material Reader-Centered. Using a Reader Evaluation Checklist. Developing a Complete Draft. 4. Refining and Polishing Your Draft. Overview: Understanding the Revising Stage. Reassessing: Reseeing Your Work. Redrafting. Editing. II. USING THE PATTERNS OF PARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT. 5. Narration. Overview: Telling Your Story. Writing a Clear Topic Sentence That Establishes a Context. Relying on Chronological Order. Choosing the Most Effective Point of View. 6. Description. Overview: Creating a Picture in Words. Previewing the Focus of Description Through the Topic Sentence. Using Sensory Details. Relying on Objective and Subjective Description. Using Spatial Order. 7. Example. Overview: Learning to Illustrate Your Point. Providing a Topic Sentence That States the Point You Will Illustrate. Providing Specific Examples. EnsuringKelly, William J. is the author of 'Odyssey A Guide to Better Writing' with ISBN 9780321290816 and ISBN 032129081X.