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Learning to Write Good How to know what you rock at and what you don’t so much rock at Well

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Learning to Write Good

How to know what you rock at and what you don’t so much rock at

Well

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WRITING IS HARD TO MEASURE

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Writing should adapt to your

audience

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How to evaluate your own writing

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6 Traits + 1IdeasVoice Sentence Fluency

Word Choice

Organization Conventions

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Ideas

How do you use specific details and elaborate on your general comments?

I am hopeless with directions. Yesterday, I got

lost on the way to the refrigerator and had to text my little sister to

rescue me.

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Voice

How does your writing create the impression of a unique human being?

What kind of person chows down on 3 donuts, 4-day old bacon and the last dregs of grapefruit

juice and calls it dinner?

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Organization

How does your writing create the impression of a unique human being?

What kind of person chows down on 3 donuts, 4-day old bacon and the last dregs of grapefruit

juice and calls it dinner?

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Word Choice

How do you choose the correct word or the surprising word to convey meaning?

Sometimes, I get so angry at my cats I want

to defenestrate them.

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Word Choice

How do you choose the correct word or the surprising word to convey meaning?

Sometimes, I get so angry at my cats I want

to defenestrate them.

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Sentence Fluency

How do you organize, vary, and construct your sentences?

Even though I am over 40-years old, I still, embarassingly, find

myself thinking that my dad is going to fix things

when they break.

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Conventions

How do you use correct grammar and writing mechanics to make your writing clear?

I know how to spell the word achieve but

surprise, for some reason, still eludes

me.

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Using your writing as a model, take the 6 traits and give yourseld a grade

from 1-10.

For each trait, write a short sentence that explains your strength and what

you need to work on