Academic English Guide

WRITING PROCESS
Part 1- PREWRITING: Select an idea and collect/ gather information about your idea/topic.
Part 2- FIRST DRAFT: Connect your ideas. Concentrate on developing your ideas.
Part 3-REVISING: I’m proving your writing. Check ideas, organization, and voice. Have somebody else read your work and check it. Add, cut, reword, or rearrange ideas if necessary.
Part 4- EDITING ANDPROOFREADING: Checking for style and accuracy. Check punctuation, grammar, spelling, and capitalization. Use spell check/ grammar check. Use a dictionary and a “thesaurus” (to find synonyms). Ask somebody tocheck your work. (For mistakes you missed) Prepare your final copy. Proofread it.
Part 5- PUBLISHING YOUR WORK: Share your work with teachers, classmates, family, friends or public.
You couldperform: read along
Display: notice board
Self-publish: personal web-site
Submit in school: classroom collection.
Submit out of school: competitions/ newspapers.
DESIGNING YOUR WRITING
Font: ArielSize: 12- text, 14-headings, 18-titles (all of them bold)
Double spacing throughout (handwritten: 1 blank space, computer: 2 times enter)
One inch margin throughout-margin the space around the pagethat should not be written in
Indent each new paragraph (5 spaces or tab key). Indentation is the space that you leave at the beginning of each new paragraph.
Leave one space after every othersentence within a paragraph.
Author’s information on the title page or top of paper
Your name: Annie Guajardo
Teacher’s name: James Sreeves
Subject: Academic EnglishTitle: Center at top of page/ 1st line
Date: (m/d/y)
THE PARAGRAPH
Parts: topic sentence, support detail, concluding sentence
--Topicsentence: is usually the 1st sentence, is the most general, don’t reveal details, one topic per paragraph. It introduces the main idea and indicates the reader what the paragraph is about.
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