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  • Showing Versus Telling
    Summary: This files gives tips for using specific details in writing and explains denotation versus connotation.
    Subject: Showing; Showing Writing; Telling; Showing Versus Telling; Connotations; Denotations; ; Denotations; Nouns; Verbs; Adjectives; Specific Language; Concrete Language; Onomatopoeia
    Course Name: Developmental Writing Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Webpage Typical Learning Time: 10 minutes
    Discipline: English Sub-Discipline: Language
    Author: Baker-Heller, CherylMiller, Carol Affiliation: The University of Texas at El Paso
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1495
    Is Part of: Unit Four: Lesson Two: Description: Showing Vs. Telling: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1630
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  • Unit Four, Lesson Two: Description: Showing Vs. Telling
    Summary: This lesson introduces description, and explains the showing versus telling.
    Subject: Vivid Description; Five Senses; Taste; Touch; Sight; Smell; Sound; Prepositional Phrases; Prepositions; Active Verbs; Adverbs; Showing; Showing Writing; Telling; Showing Versus Telling; Connotations; Denotations; Nouns; Verbs; Adjectives; Specific Language; Concrete Language; Onomatopoeia; Identifying Specific Versus Vague Language
    Course Name: Developmental Writing Course Level: Level 3 
    Media Format: Webpage; Animation Typical Learning Time: 20 minutes
    Discipline: English Sub-Discipline: Language
    Author: Baker-Heller, CherylMiller, Carol Affiliation: The University of Texas at El Paso
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1630
    Is Part of: Unit Four: Modes and Rhetorical Strategies: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1648
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  • Unit Four: Modes and Rhetorical Strategies
    Summary: This unit introduces the modes and rhetorical strategies of writing. There are narration, descritption, interviewing, classification, comparision and contrast, and process.
    Subject: Formal Style and Expressive Writing; Definition of Dominant Impression; Using Second Person in Narrative Writing; Dialogue Techniques; Expressive Writing Techniques; Writing Purpose in Narrative Writing; Narrative Essay Peer Review Questions; Narrative Essay Exercise; Remembering a Person Peer Review Questions; Expressive Essay Peer Review Questions; Expressive Essay Exercise; Sound; Active Verbs; Spatial Order; Descriptive Writing; Adverbs; Vivid Description; Precise Language; Strong Action Verbs; Feelings; Feeling; Taste; Smell; Touch; Hearing; Sight; Five Senses; First Person; Expressive Writing Tips; Plot; Character Behavior; Dialogue; Descriptive Techniques; Classification Order; Flashback; Chronological Order; Purpose in Narrative Writing; Lasting Image; Dominant Impression; Narrative Thesis; Identifying Specific Versus Vague Language; Onomatopoeia; Concrete Language; Specific Language; Adjectives; Verbs; Nouns; Denotations; Connotations; Showing Versus Telling; Telling; Showing Writing; Showing; Prepositions; Prepositional Phrases; Silences During Interviews; Research Before an Interview; Recording an Interview; Good Listening; Eye Contact; Control of Interview; Open-ended Questions; Close-ended Questions; Citing an Interview; Body Language; Atmosphere of Locale; Incorporating the Interview into Another Text; After an Interview; During an Interview; Before an Interview; Stages of Interview Process; Stages of Interview; Steps for Interviews; Interviewing; Consultations; Consulting Someone; Interviews; Occasion for Classification Writing; Characteristics of Classification Structure; Introduction for a Classification Essay; Classification Essay Organization; Organization of a Classification Essay; Structure for a Classification Essay; Classification Essay Structure; Ordering Ideas; Grouping Ideas; Writing about Parts; Writing about Categories; Classification Topics; Classifying; Classification; Identifying Relevant Criteria for Comparison Essays; Patterns for Comparison; Block Order; Point by Point Order; Organization of Comparison Essays; Comparison Essay Structure; Structure for Comparison Essays; Order of Comparison Points; Points of Comparison and Contrast; Criteria for Contrast; Criteria for Comparison; Points of Contrast; Points of Comparison; Comparison and Contrast; Contrast; Comparison; Identifying Process Topics; Process Essay Topics; Process Essay Conclusion Paragraphs; Process Essay Body Paragraphs; Process Essay Introduction Paragraphs; Structure for a Process Essay; Process Essay Structure; Explaining How Something Happens; Explaining How to do Something; Writing about Processes; Chronological Order Pattern; Process Analysis; Formal Style and Narrative Writing; Using Second Person in Narrative Writing; Narrative Writing Techniques; Identifying Relevant Criteria for Contrast Essays; Patterns for Contrast; Organization of Contrast Essays; Order of Contrast Points; Structure for Contrast Essays; Contrast Essay Structure
    Course Name: Developmental Writing Course Level: Level 4 
    Media Format: Webpage; Animation Typical Learning Time: 3.5 hours
    Discipline: English Sub-Discipline: Language
    Author: Storey-Gore, TerriRice, JudithWilliamson, OwenBaker-Heller, CherylMiller, Carol Affiliation: The University of Texas at El Paso
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1648
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