Tool for drafting and revision

When entering a restaurant, the customer usually gets a menu from which to pick and choose the food items they would like to enjoy. FEED invites you to do the same. You know you can’t eat everything on the menu, so you choose what you want. It’s like that in writing.

To grow as writers you should eventually sample everything on the menu to find your style and voice. This strategy promotes that sampling.

The items on the menu will help you draft the middle of your expository paper.

Facts

Explanations

Example (Anecdote)

Details/Descriptions

Something you can prove

Information added to clarify

A little story

New Jersey is my favorite place for vacation because of the

crabbing. If it’s crab season, we crab. We keep the blue crabs

and the snow crabs, and we let the others go. Sometimes we

catch crabs on hooks, and sometimes we lower crab cages into

the bay. Then we pull them out later. One time my brother

caught a crab so big that it got stuck in the crab cage! The crab

finally got out, but it hurt one of its legs and broke the cage

trying. Poor crab!

Close ups, what you would see if you were only five inches away

Long shots

What you would see if you were several feet away