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As a FLTA in GSU, I took COMPOSITION 1 for rhe fall semester and we use two main material, one is the handbook, "the little red writing book", and the other is the novel " tuesdays with Morrie " and i am going to record what i have learned from this book : "the little red writing book"

 introduction :Writing has four pillars,

structure means organisation
Style means the ways to use examples to present your ideas
Readability means easy to read
Grammar means write in correct and acceptable ways

 principle 1 write with a top-down approach 

Top -down usually set up for an essay or report, which the introduction is one paragraph, the body is three paragraphs, and the conclusion is one paragraph.

Expository writing means explain a topic and you have to conclude in the very beginning whereas fiction or creative writing tends to entertain audience so we usually delayed conclusion.

 principle 2 break things down 

Topic sentence means summarize the content of a single paragraph
Lead sentence means highlight what items will be discussed in order

 principle 3 use transition words 

Transition words have four functions
Show contract ( stop and get ready to turn ): however, but, yet, whereas, on the other hand
Show illustration ( enumeration keep going ): first, second, for example, in fact
Show continuation( slow down but keep going ) : furthermore, on the one hand, moreover, undoubtedly, coincidentally,
Show conclusion( you are about to arrive ) : finally, in conclusion, so, therefore, thus , as a result,

 principle 4 employ the six basic writing structure 

Categorical

evaluative

chronological

comparative

sequential

casual 

 principle 5 keep like things together 

 principle 6 Support what you say 

use specific and concret words to support what you say, "a statement without support merits a denial without reason."

" academic letter of recommendation"

"Job reference letter"

 principle 7 Personalize examples

add personal examples to make your writing more memorable

"literary techniques" :

anecdotes: they are little stories used to embellish your point

quatations: a persuasive tool

analogies: it draw similarities between two otherwise dissmilar things and help the reader see a given relationship more clearly.

similes and metaphors: compare two unlike things and are usually introduced by "like" or "as".

 principle 8 Keep it simple 

use simple word to express your ideas

 principle 9 cut down long sentences

make your writing clrarer by dividing up long sentences

 principle 10 eliminate needless words

cut out reedundancies and excessive qualification

qualifier 

modifier

 principle 11  gain active power

favor active sentences, not psaaive sentences

 principle 12 favor verbs not nouns

avoid nominalizeing your verbs and adjectives

 principle 13 always use parallel forms 

express a series of items in consistent, parallel form

parallelism in writing means that we should express similiar parts of a sentence in a consistent way.

 principle 14 capitalize on sentence variety 

vary the length and beginnings of your sentence 

 principle 15 choose an appropriate tone

write with a positive, personal tone

 principle  16

 principle 17

 principle 18 

 principle 19 

 principle 20 

  30 rules of Grammar 

  Using correct Grammatical Idioms 

A few highlights on correct punctuation