Identify and illustrate steps of the writing process in composing written exercises.
Compose a single body descriptive paragraph in formal written English. Be sure to include the following:
• Topic sentence that provides the main idea for the descriptive paragraph.
• Body sentences that discuss the main idea for the descriptive paragraph using explanation, examples, details, and of course, descriptive elements.
• Transition sentence: Your descriptive paragraph must include the use of at least one or more transitions that move the paragraph along.
• Conclusion sentence: Your descriptive paragraph must end with a concluding sentence that wraps up and refers to the main idea of the topic sentence and signals to the reader that the paragraph is over.
• Your descriptive paragraph needs to contain a minimum total of five complete sentences.
Reminder: Descriptive refers to a style of writing. Choose your sentences for your descriptive paragraph from the following sentences, and use them together to construct your descriptive paragraph. They will not all be appropriate for this paragraph, so choose only the sentences that result in a complete descriptive paragraph as listed above. Use a topic sentence that provides the main idea for a single well-organized paragraph using the steps of the writing process.
Choose the best sentences to construct your descriptive paragraph, and put them together to make ONE well-organized descriptive paragraph. Remember that not all sentences need to be used.
1. It’s a soft, blue-sky break before the gray skies of winter begin to reflect the steely cold waters the lake becomes with the first freeze.
2. Dogs are sometimes fierce protectors that can attack anyone they feel is threatening a family.
3. In the old days, dogs were not considered companions, but seen more as working animals.
4. That’s what we can all call a red-letter day!
5. My dog, Bosco, is a Harlequin Great Dane that outweighs our 10 year old brother, and to the other dogs in our neighborhood he must look like a tall spotted monster because they avoid him at all cost.
6. Do you think dogs are smarter than people?
Steps of the writing process
Writing can be intimidating, even if you are an experienced writer. But a process, breaking it down to simpler steps, can help you write faster and better. After all the way you write affects how well you write. And a proper writing process can make all the difference. The writing process refers to the steps someone takes to compose text. That said, every individual writer follows his or her own writing process and it usually comes naturally to them. But there are basic writing process steps that are universally referred to and followed. Understanding them will help you develop your very own writing process more easily.
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