chapter 24

To help you start assessing your own writing, you can do small things like freewriting, journal writing, listing, and cubing. It is good to try and assess your own writing before others do such as teachers or supervisors. When writing you have consider the rhetorical situation. You have to find a purpose for your writing and stick to that purpose. When you figure out what your writing about then you must realize who you are writing to. Make sure that you believe in what you are writing about otherwise it wont seem that way to the audience. You also have to make sure you have reason and evidence that support your thesis. You might try to do things such as define terms, give a detailed description, or include how this topic is relevant to your point. Outlining will help you out a lot by helping you find your main ideas of what you will be writing about.  At the end make sure you are checking for clarity. Making sure the reader understands what they are reading is the most important part of the paper.