How to define and evaluate your writing. You will love these easy to do writing strategies which will give your writing a clear direction by establishing the purpose of your writing and where you want to take your readers. You do not want your writing to distract your readers or to appear abstract, unless that is your intention. Your writing needs to have a purpose, be organized, interesting, and focused in order to maintain your readers attention. A powerful writing strategy can mean the difference between a best selling book and a dud. It can also mean the difference between an average blog or website to an outstanding, high performing one. Grabbing your readers attention is one thing but you won't be able to keep their attention unless you have a good writing strategy in place. See how to define the purpose of your writing and develop a writing strategy below.
Defining the Purpose of Your writing
Define the purpose of your writing and you will get a clear idea of what you are writing about. In order to clearly define your purpose you will need to make an outline. While creating your outline you should answer the following questions:
Answer these questions about the purpose of your writing.
Who, What, Where, When, Why and How:
Who am I writing about?
What am I writing about (be specific)?
Where do I want to go with my subject (where will I take my readers)?
When-Establish the time period that events occurred. Create a timeline.
Why do my reader's need to know about my subject?
How will I convince my readers?
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Answer these questions about the purpose of your writing.
Who, What, Where, When, Why and How:
Who am I writing about?
What am I writing about (be specific)?
Where do I want to go with my subject (where will I take my readers)?
When-Establish the time period that events occurred. Create a timeline.
Why do my reader's need to know about my subject?
How will I convince my readers?
Scroll down to find out more about how to evaluate parts of your writing
How to Evaluate Your Writing
How to evaluate parts of your writing
Inform
Tell your reader how you feel by letting them know how you feel about the subject you are writing about.
Explain
Explain to your readers what you are writing about or what problem you are trying to write about.
Report
What you have found out about your subject while researching materials.
Evaluate
Proof read and evaluate your material to make sure that it expresses what you are trying to say.
Provide
Provide a solution for a problem.
Argue your point
You can argue your point by stating your side of an argument but be sure to present the opposing arguments as well.
Build the body of your writing.
After you have done all your research and started writing you should next add descriptive details that let your reader know what you want them to feel or visualize.
Start a new paragraph when discussing different parts of your topic.
Make titles for each chapter as you think of them, jot them down in your journal. Knowing what the title is can sometimes help you get started on that chapter.
Entice your reader with vivid descriptions and interesting facts but try not to bore them with too many details. The ideal balance is to tantalize them with a tidbit of what is too come without giving away the whole story line.
Decide what type of ending you would like
Sometimes thinking of and creating the conclusion to your book can help you direct your thoughts of how the rest of the book can lead up to it. You do not have to make a full conclusion just sketch out an idea of how you think it should end. See video below for more writing strategy tips.
Inform
Tell your reader how you feel by letting them know how you feel about the subject you are writing about.
Explain
Explain to your readers what you are writing about or what problem you are trying to write about.
Report
What you have found out about your subject while researching materials.
Evaluate
Proof read and evaluate your material to make sure that it expresses what you are trying to say.
Provide
Provide a solution for a problem.
Argue your point
You can argue your point by stating your side of an argument but be sure to present the opposing arguments as well.
Build the body of your writing.
After you have done all your research and started writing you should next add descriptive details that let your reader know what you want them to feel or visualize.
Start a new paragraph when discussing different parts of your topic.
Make titles for each chapter as you think of them, jot them down in your journal. Knowing what the title is can sometimes help you get started on that chapter.
Entice your reader with vivid descriptions and interesting facts but try not to bore them with too many details. The ideal balance is to tantalize them with a tidbit of what is too come without giving away the whole story line.
Decide what type of ending you would like
Sometimes thinking of and creating the conclusion to your book can help you direct your thoughts of how the rest of the book can lead up to it. You do not have to make a full conclusion just sketch out an idea of how you think it should end. See video below for more writing strategy tips.
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- Writing Strategies. (2019). YouTube. Retrieved 14 March 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCIQE8TFNuI