Manuscript Form
General Rules
Title Page
Outline Page
Body of Paper
Writing a Good Composition
Guidelines
Writing Conference
Grading Standards
Correcting Compositions
Literary Analysis Guide
Plot
Characters
Setting
Tone
Style
Point of View
Narrative Technique
Structure
Theme
Approaches to Literary Criticisim
Biographical
Historical
Geographical
Political Philosophical
&
Religious
Sociological/
Anthropological
Psychological
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General
Considerations For An Effective Composition:
There is no single
way to write an effective
composition.
Once you have
chosen a topic to write on, your success will depend upon a number of
considerations.
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Your knowledge of the
topic
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Your own personality,
background, and sensitivity
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Your purpose and the
worth behind the main ideas you wish to communicate
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Your ability to express
yourself with clarity, accuracy, vigor, individuality, and
originality
Four
Standards For A Successful Composition:
There are four
standards according to which a composition may be termed successful.
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Organization--Is the
composition well planned and the thought developed so that the
controlling idea is made clear?
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Substance (worth)—Are
the ideas original, logical, interesting, and convincing enough to
hold the reader’s attention?
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Style—Is the approach
appropriate to the thought?
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Mechanics—To what
degree is the writer able to spell correctly, to punctuate, and to
use acceptable standards of grammar?
Three
Stages of Writing:
In general, the
process of writing a composition divides itself into three stages.
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Choosing a topic;
gathering and sifting materials; planning the organization and
development of the composition in the outline so that it has unity
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Writing the composition
by following the outline
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Rereading and REVISING
the composition to make it more expressive, vivid, and clear and to
check for grammatical and rhetorical correctness.
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