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today we just did our key points

1) Creative Writing: a form of artistic expression, draws on the imagination to convey meaning through the use of imagery, narrative, and drama. This is in contrast to analytic or pragmatic forms of writing. This genre includes poetry, fiction (novels, short stories), scripts, screenplays, and creative non-fiction.(adobe Photoshop reader.)
2) Audience: it doesn’t have to be in person it can be in thought. The audience will be the reader of your piece; you want to think about how they will perceive your piece.
3) Details: will be concrete details, specific experiences, anecdotes, or vivid photographic descriptions. For example if you were going to use “street” you would want to use the name of the street.
4) Development: is the way you use the body of your text, your use of detail, information, research, outside sources, as well as the choices you make in arrangement of these materials.
5) Endings: would be the conclusion of the paper, which are more effective when you don’t summarize the paper
6) Focus: what is the paper going to be about? Make your you stay on the point that you start off with
7) Genre: type of style of writing, such as short story, play, essay, poem, or letter.
8) Leads: the opening of the paper, can be a sentence or a page.
9) Mechanics: can be the spelling, punctuation, spacing, usage, and manuscript form.
10) Organizational Plan: the order in which you present your text, you can write it in chronological order, spatial order, order of importance, cause and effect, and grouping of details.
11) Prose: ordinary form of spoken or written language; it is plain language not arranged in verses. Characteristics of prose include narration, description and exposition.
12) Substance: writing is the extent to which you will tacitly answer the inevitable reader’s question “Why should I read this”
13) Voice: The quality of your writing that makes it sound like a human being speaking or thinking