6 TRICKS
Expository
Writing
The 3 Feathers of Writing
Explain
Argue
Persuade
Some People Call It:
Expository Writing, But…
Informational Writing
Needs no further definition
Informational
Writing uses…
Reports about: books
people
places
objects
experiments
history
surveys
Informational
Writing
Your goal:
To give clear information
that
GETS SOMBODY EXCITED
about your subject!
Writing to
Inform or Explain
WAIT!
FREEZE!
Before heading in, let’s review some
Important writing basics, like.....
5
STEPS OF
WRITING
PLANNING
HOW! Line
SLOPPY COPY
Step 2
•Use pencil
only.
•Write complete
sentences.
•Write quickly and don’t worry about
mistakes.
•Write on every 2nd line to leave
revising space.
•No erasing! (You might want to put
something back.)
•Instead, cross out using one
thin line.
•No balling up paper and starting over. If you don’t like
something, cross it out. Too much good stuff ends up in the
Revising
The SUCCESS Step!
Make your writing great!
PROOFREADING
Step 4
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Neat Sheet
Use erasable pens for last minute changes.
This is NOT the step for making lots of changes or writing
new stuff.
Input to your computer. Make a book. Add drawings.
The
6
Tricks
of
Informational
Writing
SHOW
The HOW!
Line
Show
Meet
Trick 1
Highlight
1
Highlight
2
Highlight
3
WOW!
Closing
HOW! Line is the ULIMATE TOOL
For
Informational Writing planning
.
Without it, your report will RAMBLE, lack direction and BORE your
readers.
LEAD
SHOW
MEET
Beginning
Here’s a blank HOW! Line
before ideas are jotted
down.
Middle
HIGHLIGHT 1
HIGHLIGHT 2
CLOSING
End
HIGHLIGHT 3
HOW! MOMENT
Trick 2
HOW! Moment
Fill this out
FIRST!
Choose your
MOST FASCINATING
and
COMPELLING
Piece of information.
Pick a highlight
that will rock your
Really???
readers.
Usually it's about HOW something
happens.
HOW! Moment
How to teach
your bird to
talk.
SHOW
Show
Trick 3
Show how people made fun of me
having a bird instead of a bird or a car.
RELATE AN EXPERIENCE.
Use INTERACTION and DIALOGUE to create or recall
a short experience that introduces your topic.
Make up portions you can't remember or create a
realistic scene, especially one that will get readers
thinking or talking.
Really???
HOW! Moment
How to teach
your bird to talk.
Really?!?
HIGHLIGHTS
1,2
&
3
Trick Show Show how people made fun of me
5
having a bird instead of a bird or a car.
Parakeets in parrot family. Can have 1 or 2.
Don't need lots of attention. Tips follow.
Jot down the
FIRST, SECOND
& keet.
THIRD
Choosing the
Good highlights
store. Puffiness.
Highlight
Get a young one. Color Bars. Active one.
About yourBringsubject,
perhaps
it home. &
Decorate
cage. more.
Radio.
H
Seed and Water. Change cage bottom.
1ighlight
Important Safety Tip! No drafts! Put
H
2ighlight 3
cage in corner of busy area.
Place the most
Really???
How to teach your bird to talk.
interesting highlight last in order.
Meet
HOW! Moment
Trick 6
Instead use
THOUGHTS or
FEELINGS to provide
either a dramatic of
humorous closing.
CLOSING