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Title: Writing from Start to Finish: a six-step guide

Author(s): Kate Grenville

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Date: 2002

Pages: 225

Size: 1.50 Mb

Format: PDF

Quality: High

Language: British English

Contents:

Ideal for writing a short story, essay, review, or report, this guide provides beginning writers with the hands-on direction they need to improve their writing techniques and ability. Using a six-step approach to writing, this resource covers brainstorming ideas, choosing a topic, outlining, drafting, revising, and editing.

The tone is casual, the advice is straightforward, and the whole approach makes writing a skill that anyone can learn. Illustrations reinforce the ideas visually and help to break up the text into bite-sized chunks. An example section with worked examples of two kinds of writing—a creative writing piece and an essay—takes readers through the six steps, so they can watch writing develop from a blank page to a finished piece. Ideal for high school students but also appropriate for writers of all ages, this book also includes tips on user-friendly grammar, a table of different types of text, and a quick night-before-the-exam summary.


CONTENTS

Introduction

v

What makes writing hard?

v

How this book helps

v

Can anyone learn to write?

vi

How the six steps work

vii

Writing assignments

1

Understanding assignments

2

Two kinds of writing assignments

3

Step One: Getting ideas

9

About getting ideas

11

Getting ideas for imaginative writing

14

Getting ideas for an essay

28

Step Two: Choosing

47

About choosing ideas

49

Choosing ideas for imaginative writing

50

Choosing ideas for an essay

57

Step Three: Outlining

67

About making an outline

69

Making an outline for imaginative writing

72

Making an outline for an essay

86

Step Four: Drafting

103

About writing a first draft

105

First draft for imaginative writing

112

First draft for an essay

122Step Five: Revising

135

About revising

137

Revising imaginative writing

140

Revising an essay

153

Step Six: Editing

165

About editing

167

Editing imaginative writing

169

Editing an essay

178

Other useful stuff

189

Applying the six steps to different kinds of writing

189

Types of texts at a glance

194

User-friendly grammar

196

Ten-minute exam kit

206

Bibliography

212

Acknowledgements

213

Index

214