writing 101 part 1

Writing 101

A review of the writing process and grammar

Planning

What (text message, e-mail, letter, essay, research paper)

Why (to inform, to argument, to compare)

For whom (a friend, a teacher, a boss, a class)

The answer to what will determine the information; this can be planned through an outline, a list, or in your head.

The answer to why, or the purpose, will influence the information, the type of text and the language.

The audience will help choose the structure, the language and the tone (formal 0r informal).

The process of writing Planning

Drafting (first, second, third…… version)

Editing (corrections)

Final version

Start writing

Title: Try thinking of an original title, not just the topic, for example in the case of cockfighting, “Tradition or Animal Cruelty,” Entertainment or Greed”. You can also specify the title a little more: “Cockfighting in Costa Rica: the pros and cons”

Organization of an essay Introduction: Thesis statement (it should indicate what

you are writing about and why), definition, background information, final sentence introducing following paragraph (the final sentence can also be the thesis statement.

Body paragraphs: One single idea should be expressed through the main sentence, and the other sentences are to support this one idea. When revising, ask yourself : What is this paragraph about? Are all the sentences related?

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Conclusion : Sum up all the information, offer final statements or results, restate the main idea, if applicable, give personal opinion.

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APA Style

Why?

How?

When?

Now, what is wrong here? In conclusion there a myriad of personal views points

that support and oppose this controversial sport, but it seems that cockfighting won’t be banned any time soon. Part of cockfighting’s strength is it’s support base, garnering the participation of wealthy and famous people. For example, in many countries around the world some politicians support this cruel activity. Despite being illegal and looked down upon in many countries, cockfighting is legal and considered part of a cultural heritage that will pass from generation to generation.

Cohesion

Cohesion: The sentences “stick together” so we know what is being referred to and how the phrases and sentences relate to each other. This is done through the use of conjunctions, pronouns, transitions and others.

We will see what is going to happened in the next few days or months and see if it is going to be banned or not, there are the cock breeders that fiercely defend these events must continue because is part of our culture, others that in contrast want cruelty to stop… and my personal opinion that is definitely against cockfights.

Coherence Coherence: The reader should be able to identify the

writer’s purpose and line of thought.

Die with dignity and not silver as in cockfighting.

Some people relate cockfights with the culture so might create all kinds of hard feelings within our society.

They also argue that use their own money and not cash from people.

Sentences Sentences should not be very short because the

writing will seem “choppy” nor too long because they can become confusing.

I like to watch tv.

Their only function is to die and that’s it.

In the Ark of Noah were fighting cocks.

There are people that are against these combats because they are not in favor of the abuse animal and they want to stop these fights because unfortunately the destiny of the cocks is the death because they cannot be given to the people because they can hurt someone so at the end the law has to kill them.

Run-ons Run-on sentences have two or more independent

clauses that are placed together without a conjunction or connector. Commonly, only a comma was used in your essays.

I would like to mention as negative aspects the animal abuse, this is a very violent activity in where..

…they have no way to scape, have to fight until the end, at the fights they are force to be violent, they cannot socialize.

Cockfighting is a blood sport between two roosters specifically bred for aggressiveness, people call them gamecocks, they are placed beak to beak in a small ring called cockpit and encouraged to fight to the death.

In recent months we have heard, read and seen on television, more often, the problematic issue of cockfighting in our country, the police and SENASA…

The final solution for fighting cocks is sacrificed, we put them to sleep.

…a cockfight is not something to be proud of. It is an animal who suffers, who is trained to kill…

Cockfights are combats between two cocks of the same gender and race, the winner of the….

Incomplete How much they can earn in one night to gambling.

Things such as cockfighting.

In the Ark of Noah were fighting cocks.

Die with dignity and not silver as in cockfighting.

The definite article Remember that the is a definite article, that is, the

noun following it is a specific one (not just any).

The cannot be used before gerund functioning as a noun (swimming, cockfighting), the days of the week or the months of the year.

In the case of the swimming pool, the gerund is an adjective.

The rooster fight

…based on that the rooster have a genetic or characteristics for fighting.

They said that the society present a double moral because they critic the rooster fights but no other activities were animals….

most of the countries/ most countries

…where people practice the clandestine cockfighting.

…the roosters were born to fight.

…people enjoy the bet and they say that the bet does not hurt anybody.

The director of National Animal Health Service…

Pronouns Pronouns always need a antecedent which should

be near enough to understand who or what the pronoun is replacing. They should not be used over and over again at the beginning of each sentences, and never to start a paragraph.

I encourage all the people how has ever participate in this to stop the gambling and every kind of motivation they have to be part of it. (paragraph)

They are even brought to this world with special techniques that makes them very violent in nature. They have a special and very sharp beak that makes them even more violent because their function is to… They also explain is a very unsanitary practice because of the environment in which these activities are held. And also, because the main attraction of these activities is the bets which make cockfighting illegal.