Our next writing assignment will be for the commentary/opinions section of the newspaper.
For this assignment, you will need to pick one of the three topics you indicated would be good to write a story about in the assignment called "Opinions writing preview". It was question C at the very end of that assignment. You will have to scroll down to find it.
Let's give this style of writing a shot. Pick one of those three topics and write a commentary piece about it - below are some tips, followed by the instructions with length requirements.
Here are some tips to writing this type of story:
1. Start with a good introduction that gives us, in very short fashion, the basics about your topic. Make sure you state your DIRECT opinion on the topic you have chosen.
2. Write in 1st person if you want. This means you can use the word "I".
3. There are no quotes needed, BUT you will need facts to base your opinion on.
4. State your opinion early and support it fully.
5. Address the other side, this means you need to directly say what the other side might feel about your opinion. Not only do you need to acknowledge their side, you need to refute their opinion, that means you need to prove them wrong somehow.
6. Come up with some solutions to your problem and try to convince the other side that your ideas might work.
7. To close, you can restate your opinion.
So pick your topic, do some research about your topic on google (make sure its facts; Google is not always factual).
And start writing.. Know your subject, take a side and stick with it (don't be wishy-washy) and go for it.
This piece will need to be 500 words and should be about 12-15 paragraphs long. You will have one and a half classes to complete this story and have it posted on your blog. Today you have the entire period.
For this assignment, you will need to pick one of the three topics you indicated would be good to write a story about in the assignment called "Opinions writing preview". It was question C at the very end of that assignment. You will have to scroll down to find it.
Let's give this style of writing a shot. Pick one of those three topics and write a commentary piece about it - below are some tips, followed by the instructions with length requirements.
Here are some tips to writing this type of story:
1. Start with a good introduction that gives us, in very short fashion, the basics about your topic. Make sure you state your DIRECT opinion on the topic you have chosen.
2. Write in 1st person if you want. This means you can use the word "I".
3. There are no quotes needed, BUT you will need facts to base your opinion on.
4. State your opinion early and support it fully.
5. Address the other side, this means you need to directly say what the other side might feel about your opinion. Not only do you need to acknowledge their side, you need to refute their opinion, that means you need to prove them wrong somehow.
6. Come up with some solutions to your problem and try to convince the other side that your ideas might work.
7. To close, you can restate your opinion.
So pick your topic, do some research about your topic on google (make sure its facts; Google is not always factual).
And start writing.. Know your subject, take a side and stick with it (don't be wishy-washy) and go for it.
This piece will need to be 500 words and should be about 12-15 paragraphs long. You will have one and a half classes to complete this story and have it posted on your blog. Today you have the entire period.