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Writing an Editorial

WRITING WORKSHOPChapter 1, Grade 11

California Standards

Writing 1.0– Students write coherent and focused texts that

convey a well-defined perspective and tightly reasoned arguments.

Writing 1.1– Demonstrate an understanding of the elements

of discourse when completing persuasive writing assignments.

Preteaching

Standards Starting

– What visual techniques do the commercials use to get the viewer’s attention?

– What do the commercials say to convince the viewers to buy their products?

Preteaching

Standards Starting

– Persuasive Techniques used in commercials often appear in more serious messages, such as political advertisements, debates, and editorials.

Direct Teaching

Audience

– If you have trouble visualizing your audience, imagine a person who takes the position opposite yours on the issue about which you are writing.

– As you write, keep that person in mind.

Direct Teaching

Analyze Your Audience

– As the speakers in your editorials, you will want to adopt the correct tone.

» The tone is the attitude writers express toward a subject and an audience through you language.

– Take a polite, respectful, and rational tone when writing your editorials.

Direct Teaching

Gather and Shape Support

– You need to become familiar with ethical appeals which are appeals to an audience’s sense of right and wrong.

» Conceding a Point: “True, many young people would benefit from more structured after-school activities.”

» A demonstration of fairness: “Is arbitrarily placing restrictions on one group in keeping with our country’s concept of equal protection under the law?”

Reteaching

Organize Your Support

– Use a visual organizer to help you organize your support and shape your body paragraphs.

Download this graphic organizer at www.curriculumcompanion.org

Direct Teaching

A Writer’s Model– One of the best ways to

capture your audience’s attention is to surprise them.

– Begin your editorials with a fact, quotation, or anecdote that will surprise your audience.

– You can ask yourself: » “What do I find most

surprising about my issue?”

Direct Teaching

First Reading: Content and Organization

– Using think sheets when reading models or drafts can help you to organize your thoughts on the reading and to remember ideas for your own writing and revision.

Download this graphic organizer at www.curriculumcompanion.org

Direct Teaching

Critical Thinking

– Notice the brief anecdote used to introduce A Writer’s Model.

» How do you think the anecdote helps make the situation real and important to readers?

» How might an anecdote make your editorials more effective?

Direct Teaching

Proofread and Publish– If you publish your

editorial on the Internet, be aware that this is a public forum and its content may be unpredictable.

– Using charts and graphs can help hit home the ideas in your editorials.

» You can create these using word processing or spreadsheet programs that can import charts or graphs.

Direct Teaching

Guided and Independent Practice

– If you were beginning an editorial today, how might you decide differently about you choice of issue and organizational plan?

– What is the best way to attain and maintain a good tone in an editorial?

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