WRITING GUIDE & STYLE SHEET

Prewriting:

Choose a Topic

Narrow your topic

Choose a strategy

            Research your topic, take notes and make an outline

Writing:

            Develop your thesis statement

            Write an introduction

            Develop your main points with facts, figures, quotations, and examples

            Write a conclusion

Revising:

            Read your paper aloud

            Evaluate content and organization

Edit redundant/weak phrases

Check sentence variety

Proofread (Don’t count on your computer’s spelling check system.)

Publishing:

            Write the final draft

            Document sources if necessary