WRITING UNIT-LESSONS
Updated 22Jan98 for Winter 1998

1. Edit Your Writing
2. Differentiate Between Speaking and Writing
3. Control the Subject of Your Sentence
4. Control Your Sentence Predication
5. Control your information: subordination
6. Achieve unity through point of view
7. Build paragraph patterns
8. Define images and ideas
9. Develop topics by comparison
10. Express attitude through word choice
11. Convey meaning through tone
12. Arrive at the controlling idea
13. Compress and expand ideas
14. Develop the controlling idea
15. Weigh both your facts and opinions
16. Concentrate on each part of the paragraph
17. Vary sentence beginnings and lengths
18. Link ideas with transitional elements
19. Write connected sentences
20. Develop your ideas fully
21. Support judgments with specific information
22. Support your statements with examples
23. Use concrete words
24. Describe action effectively
25. Increase verb density
26. Shift sentence parts for emphasis
27. Use emphasis to enforce meaning
28. Match simplicity of ideas and form
29. Arrange ideas in a natural order
30. Mirror yourself in your writing
31. Reveal voice in what you write
32. Use figurative language
33. Enliven writing through extended metaphor
34. Organize experience through images
35. Convey visual experience
36. Recognize the sounds in language

References

Katherine M. Blickhahn et al. Writing: Unit-lessons in Composition. Foundations Book A.
Don P. Brown et al. Writing: Unit-lessons in Composition. Book 2B.