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The 5th List is a list of things you want to know. It is a list of questions. The September issue of Time magazine was called the Question Everything issue. It was full of questions that are being debated in our culture. Chris Anderson’s TED Talk “Questions we don’t know the answer to (yet)” is […]
This is the process I use when I write just about anything. Not sure where all the ideas originated, though they seem rather obvious and inevitable to me at this point. I almost always start with a
LIST.
Think of the list as your prewriting, all the possible ideas, all the possible things you can say […]
LIST #4 OPINIONS
This is a list of opinions, things you believe, or things you feel strongly about. These are likely topics that you could use in persuasive or argumentative writing or speaking. A quick way to get at these is to complete the following sentences in as many ways as you can:
I believe….
[…]
LIST #3 STORIES FROM OTHERS
These are stories that you probably have to tell in the third person. These are stories, or scenes, or anecdotes, or events that someone has told you. Or they are from movies, or books, or television shows. If the primary source is not you, and you like it, than you […]
LIST #2 STORIES I CAN TELL
These are you greatest hits. These are the stories you can tell with the pronoun I. You were there, or were a part of it in some way. These are the stories people keep asking you to tell. These are true stories from your experience. (List #3 is for […]
LIST #1 APPRECIATIONS
This is a list of things things that you like, things that you appreciate, things that you think about, know about, want to know about. This is a list of things you can write or speak about as an author. I once had a teacher assign an AUTHORity list. This was a […]
Write 4 Lists. These four:
#1 APPRECIATIONS
#2 STORIES I CAN TELL
#3 STORIES FROM OTHERS
#4 OPINIONS
Why?
Glad you asked. By writing these four lists you have the raw material for many writing and speaking assignments. List #1 relates to expository writing, #2 and #3 are lists of narratives that you can tell, and #4 […]
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