Language Learning Center

Writing Workshop for Multilingual Speakers and Writers

Matthew David Collins PizzornoAdjunct FacultyPalomar College and ALCI: CSU San Marcos

Discovering the Writer within: The Academic Writing Process

• Understand a writing prompt, so you can discover the information you already posses.

• Apply your knowledge of the writing process to understand a prompt, come up with your own ideas, and begin to organize these ideas into a coherent structure.

Upon finishing this workshop, you will be able to:

• What is the meaning of a PROCESS?

• How does this meaning apply to Academic Writing?

(How should you begin to organize your thoughts and ideas after you receive your

writing assignment?)

1.1. Choose a TopicChoose a Topic

2.2. BrainstormBrainstorm(This is the (This is the most VITAL component)most VITAL component)

3.3. Organize/Outline Organize/Outline

1.1. What are the Main ideas? What are the Main ideas?

2.2. What are the supporting ideas)What are the supporting ideas)

4.4. Write, and Write, and Write, and Write, and Write, and Write, and

Write, and Write some moreWrite, and Write some more–

4 Main Characteristics of the Academic writing process

Let’s Practice These concepts…

Choosing a Topic:What is your professor asking you

to do??

Prompt #1:Some students prefer to study alone. Others prefer to study with a group of students. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Prompt #2: TECHNOLOGY MAKES COMMUNICATION EASIER IN TODAY'S WORLD. MANY PEOPLE CHOOSE TO WORK AT HOME IN FRONT OF A COMPUTER SCREEN. WHAT DANGER DOES THE SOCIETY FACE BY DEPENDING ON COMPUTER SCREENS RATHER THAN FACE-TO-FACE CONTACT AS THE MAIN MEANS OF COMMUNICATION?

Brainstorming:Thinking about the topic and discovering your inner writer

TIPS ON BRAINSTORMING FOR AN ESSAY:

Ground Rules1.Focus on quantity:

2.Withhold criticism:

3.Welcome unusual ideas:

4.Combine and improve ideas: 1+1=3

More Brainstorming:

TIPS ON BRAINSTORMING FOR AN ESSAY:

I keep six honest serving-men(They taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and WhenAnd How and Where and Who.

Rudyard Kipling

Taking down our fabulous brainstorming ideas: Starting to Organize our Writing What is

this thing????

Graphic Organizers

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/

In order to really use these ideas, you must

discover what GRAPHIC ORGSNIZER is right for you.

Check this out when you have a few minutes…….

But for today’s workshop, let’s use my favorite

Graphic Organizer…..A Mind Map or Cluster

Diagram.

Contact Me: Mpizzorn@csusm.comMpizzorn@csusm.com

Ideas for future workshops?????????????

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