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PLAN – Planning an Expository Essay

Why use this strategy: Essay writing requires a plan. Use the PLAN strategy to generate, organize and expand your ideas before you start writing your essay.

Materials you’ll need: Your essay assignment, brainstorming tools (Inspiration, markers and big paper), writing tools (computer, pen and paper)

Steps in this strategy:

  1. Pay attention to the prompt
    • Read the prompt
    • Underline what you are asked to write about
    • Underline how you are to develop it twice
  2. List main ideas
    • Brainstorm possible responses to the prompt
    • Decide on one topic
    • Then brainstorm at least 3 main ideas for the development of your essay
  3. Add supporting ideas
    • Think of at least 3 details, examples and elaborations to support each of your main ideas
  4. Number your ideas
    • Number your main ideas in the order you’ll use them

Next try the WRITE strategy

WRITE – Writing an Expository Essay

Why use this strategy: Use the WRITE strategy to compose your expository essay. This strategy builds on the PLAN strategy.

Materials you’ll need: Your PLAN, your essay assignment, brainstorming tools (Inspiration, markers and big paper), writing tools (computer, pen and paper)

Steps in this strategy:

  1. Work from your PLAN to develop your thesis statement
    1. See cue cards for basic and advanced approaches
  2. Remember your goals
    1. Write 1-2 goals on the top of your plan
  3. Include transition words
    1. See cue cards for each paragraph
  4. Try to use different kinds of sentences
    1. Simple, compound, complex, declarative, interrogative, exclamatory
  5. Exciting, interesting, $100 000 words
    1. Use synonyms for words occurring more than once

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