A free-write means just that. You set a time, maybe even a timer for, let's say 5 minutes. You begin and don't stop until the timer rings. In a free-write you don't correct errors or wonder if what you're writing will work or "is good." Just write. At the end you will have probably unearthed some nugget pertaining to the event, the narrative significance or details you'd forgotten about the experience. An outline gets main ideas and sub-ideas down on paper in an orderly fashion. You could divide the outline into 1) the event about which you'll write the story; 2) the writer's point of view; 3) narrative significance; 4) the vivid details about the time and place of the event. Once you have those main ideas down you can list elements you want to include for each.

Note cards work similarly to an outline, but instead of creating an outline you use note cards to jot down ideas as they come up. After you're done, you would put them in order, the order of the essay. This method helps organize the narrative. It is useful because the cards can be moved around until the writer finalizes where they belong in the story. From there, a draft is written.

For this discussion, therefore, I'd like you to:

Write a pre-draft document: an outline, a free-write document, or 10-12 overall ideas that represent a set of notecards, and thus a plan for your initial draft.
Tell me what is your purpose in composing this personal narrative? What is your stance? And, who are your readers (the audience)?

Read the passage from animal farm. one sunday morning squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs. napoleon had accepted, through whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. the price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. when the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry. they had been warned earlier that this sacrifice might be necessary, but had not believed that it would really happen. they were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. for the first time since the expulsion of jones, there was something resembling a rebellion. led by three young black minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart napoleon's wishes. their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor. napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. he ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. the dogs saw to it that these orders were carried out. for five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes. nine hens had died in the meantime. their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died of coccidiosis. whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away. which detail from the passage supports the claim that this is an allegory for the great purge? the hens holding out for five days but capitulating the eggs being delivered to the grocer the protesting hens being intentionally starved coccidiosis spreading on the farm

Compound and complex sentences pre test active time remaining 19: 06 a sentence that includes an independent clause and at least one dependent clause is called a sentence.

Research the literary work you want to discuss and gather enough evidence to support your thesis statement. then write a 300-word essay. apply the writing strategies you explored in this lesson.