Video Tutorial: 26 min.
Topics discussed:
- Analyzing the prompt with Do What / With What chart: summarize, select, report, explain, and compare
- Organizing information :coherently
- Proper use of :non-restrictive relative clauses
- Differentiating between active and passive :voice
- Understanding :independent and :dependent clauses
- Using appropriate :coordinating conjunctions and sentence connectors
- Importance of planning before writing
- Identifying grammatical range and accuracy issues
- Organizing information from general to specific
- Using semicolons to link closely related clauses
- Using prepositions
- Efficiently describing main features in a few sentences
- Comparing and noting changes between maps
- Keeping related terms together in descriptions
- Using adverbs with semicolons for contrasting points