What makes good writing?

Today's Agenda:
1. Assignment, essay 2 revision due
2. What do you need help with?
3. Writing prompt--Ben Myers poem, "The professor pauses mid-lecture."
4. Discussion of your comments
5. Good writing analysis from Hillerman, Bowden assignment
6. Vista writing analysis of difference
7. Review due dates for essay 3

What can you learn from good writing?  

1.      What are five characteristics that make these samples good writing? Give specific examples.

2.      What two things about their writing can you use to improve yours? Be specific.

Hillerman:

·         Storytelling

·         Action Verbs

·         Description

·         Precise details

·         Imagery (similes, metaphors)

·         Emotion (why?)

What is one thing that really stands out to you about this writing? Why?

Bowden:

·         Storytelling

·         Action Verbs

·         Description

·         Precise details

·         Imagery (similes, metaphors)

·         Emotion (why?)

What is one thing that really stands out to you about this writing? Why?