Developing

• Organize Ideas
  • Choosing a Subject
  • Guide to Writing a Basic Essay
  • Organizing your writing
  • "The Big 6 Organizer" helps plan, organize, and focus
  • Using an outline to organize
• Develop Ideas
  • Using a tree diagram
  • Guide to mapping
  • Coming up with your topic
  • Developing Body Paragraphs
• Using Quotations
  • Working with quotations
  • "Using Quotations" Powerpoint (Jonaitis/Davis)
  • Avoiding "Dropped" Quotations
• Composing a Thesis
  • Developing a thesis
  • The Thesis Statement
• Writing Introductions and Conclusions
  • Writing introductions
  • Writing effective openers
  • Introductions for many subject areas
  • Writing effective conclusions