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General
Considerations For An Effective Composition:
There is no single way
to write an effective composition.
Once you have chosen a
topic to write on, your success will depend upon a number of
considerations.
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Your knowledge of the topic
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Your own personality, background, and
sensitivity
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Your purpose and the worth behind the main
ideas you wish to communicate
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Your ability to express yourself with
clarity, accuracy, vigor, individuality, and originality
Four Standards For A
Successful Composition:
There are four standards
according to which a composition may be termed successful.
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Organization--Is the composition well
planned and the thought developed so that the controlling idea is made
clear?
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Substance (worth)—Are the ideas original,
logical, interesting, and convincing enough to hold the reader’s
attention?
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Style—Is the approach appropriate to the
thought?
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Mechanics—To what degree is the writer able
to spell correctly, to punctuate, and to use acceptable standards of
grammar?
Three Stages of Writing:
In general, the process
of writing a composition divides itself into three stages.
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Choosing a topic; gathering and sifting
materials; planning the organization and development of the composition
in the outline so that it has unity
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Writing the composition by following the
outline
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Rereading and REVISING the composition to
make it more expressive, vivid, and clear and to check for grammatical
and rhetorical correctness.
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