Week#2 Brainstorming techniques and Writing a Dominant Impression Essay

Hello everyone,

Welcome to this online writing class.   This class blog is intended to provide online resources  to help you hone your writing skills.  Every week materials related to a writing skill and the type of essay you will  have to write will be posted.  After you view the materials, leave a comment on the blog page to show what you have learned. You can also ask questions related to the topic of the post.

You will also be given a link to a class Padlet page to work collaboratively on the writing topic. The Padlet page is your space to brainstorm and share ideas together about the writing topic and develop and outline and then post your first draft for peer/group review and feedback.

This week we will review some prewriting techniques that will help you generate ideas for  the topics you will write about.  Here are two videos about  pre-writing techniques that can help you deal with a writing topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fo13d1b7HA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j27mMyGWfM

Here's a link to the class Padelt page: http://padlet.com/ahmed_mansour/1b26284azd1u

Double click the link to go to the class Padlet page Once there, collaboratively  brainstorm ideas and develop an essay outline about your best friend.

After you  have your essay outline ready, write your first draft and post it in the Padlet page.  Share ideas with the rest of class about your first draft.  Look at the rubric sheet for evaluating your writing and make sure your writing meets all requirement for a good essay. Use your classmates feedback to write a second draft and publish it on the class Padlet page.

Feel free to ask if you have any questions.