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ENG1: Composition writing

This unit explores composition writing and how to come up with an enticing essay.
English grammar - composition
Writing composition is adding words and making sentences by following a conventional pattern. Students must follow the right grammatical rules while expressing their ideas and opinions. In brief, it is an activity of writing, which is concerned with handwriting, basic knowledge of language and spelling. Additionally, it includes cognitive, meta-cognitive and other relevant aspects. However, writing composition is a process that allows students to write about something or express their views on something in an intelligible manner.

Steps of Composition Writing

  • Put the ideas in a readable written format.
  • Organize and draft the ideas in a sequence.
  • Structure the entire content, punctuation, grammar check, sequence of the words in a coherent manner.
  • Understand the needs of the readers.
  • Include all components of composition writing.
  • Final Drafting write cleanly with combining the useful ideas.
  • Review the write up and finally, editing should be done.
  • Motivation and the presence of clear concepts are appreciated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9aVjBHEEbU

The Importance of Writing Composition:

  • Writing composition improves students’ writing skill, it indirectly enhances the reading and speaking skill. Writing, speaking and reading any language is closely related to each other and hence, the improvement of any one among them impacts on the other.
  • Writing Composition allows students to improve their imagination skill and thinking as well as analyzing ability. To be a successful writer, students must have good imagination skill and to brush up this skill, they should write compositions on a regular basis. To create different kinds of write ups, students need an immense imagination skill.
  • Writing composition is a right way to express the thoughts and views of the individual. Through compositions, students can communicate with others and give a message to the society.

How to Write a Composition

To write a composition, students should follow some constructive steps. These steps can be followed for any kind of writing.
• Introduction: This is the most important part of any writing. An Introduction should be engaging and well-prepared so that readers can complete the entire content without taking a break. The thesis statement or thesis question should be included in the introduction and the style should draw the readers’ attention and allow them to finish quickly. However, transition sentences should be added in this part to make the readers inquisitive about the body of content.
• Body of the Content: The entire facts and views are usually elaborated and narrated in the body part. Hence, it should be catchy and to the point. A good body structure of any piece of writing represents both pros and cons. However, three main components are available in the body of any write up. First is elaboration where the information is elaborated or clarified with pertinent examples. Second is illustration, where a writer tries to make a verbal picture to give the readers a clarity of the topics. Well illustrated compositions are more understandable than abstract. Third is argumentation where a writer gives justification and finally makes inferences for the better understanding of the readers. However, some logical connectors such as thus, still, but and others should be used while moving from one sub-point to another to keep the readers engaged in reading.
• Conclusion: The wrap up sentences act as the clear conclusion of any write up. The purpose of a conclusion is to give readers a space with constructive ideas to understand the essence of the composition. However, the finishing lines should be lucid, convincing and clear in all manners.

Types of Composition Writing

There are different types of composition and each type follow some specific rules. Based on the topic, the writers chose the type of composition and develop it accordingly. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oGRqw0cxXAkjEa211NpETM2ZCWr3EPwP7KIA8nbGzeI . However, the four types of compositions such as Narration, Exposition, Argumentation and Descriptive are mentioned here.

1. Narration: This type of composition gives the readers a thorough experience of an event. It is naturally explained and hence, it represents an impression about the entire scenario. What happened and the entire process of any event is clearly discussed for the better understanding of the readers.

Narrative writing’s main purpose is to tell a story. The author will create different characters and tell you what happens to them (sometimes the author writes from the point of view of one of the characters—this is known as first person narration). Novels, short stories, novellas, poetry, and biographies can all fall in the narrative writing style. Simply, narrative writing answers the question: “What happened then?”

Key Points:

  • A person tells a story or event.
  • Has characters and dialogue.
  • Has definite and logical beginnings, intervals, and endings.
  • Often has situations like actions, motivational events, and disputes or conflicts with their eventual solutions.

Examples of When You Would Use Persuasive Writing:

  • Novels
  • Short stories
  • Novellas
  • Poetry
  • Autobiographies or biographies
  • Anecdotes
  • Oral histories

Example:

“I don’t think that’s a good idea,” said Jaelyn.

“You never used to be such a girl!” retorted Orin, pushing open the door.

Reluctantly, Jaelyn followed.

This is a narrative because it’s telling a story. There are different characters conversing, and a plot is unravelling.

Non-example:

Cutting Edge Haunted House holds the Guinness World Record for the largest haunted house on earth. It’s located in a district in Fort Worth, Texas known as “Hell’s Half Acre” in a century-old abandoned meat-packing plant. The haunted house takes an hour to complete, winding through horrific scenes incorporating the factory’s original meat-packing equipment.

While this would serve as a worthy setting for a story, it would need a plot before it could be called a narrative.

2. Expository: This type of composition explains any situation or character with a thorough analysis. Here, writers put their effort to make the situation clear to the readers.

Expository writing’s main purpose is to explain. It is a subject-oriented writing style, in which authors focus on telling you about a given topic or subject without voicing their personal opinions. These types of essays or articles furnish you with relevant facts and figures but do not include their opinions. This is one of the most common types of writing. You always see it in textbooks and how-to articles. The author just tells you about a given subject, such as how to do something.

Key Points:

  • Usually explains something in a process.
  • Is often equipped with facts and figures.
  • Is usually in a logical order and sequence.

When You Would Use Expository Writing:

  • Textbook writing.
  • How-to articles.
  • Recipes.
  • News stories (not including opinion or editorial pieces).
  • Business, technical, or scientific writing.

Example:

Many people associate the taste of pumpkins with fall. In October, companies from Starbucks to McDonalds roll out their pumpkin-flavored lattes and desserts. Here is how to make an easy pumpkin pie using only five ingredients. First, make sure you have all of the ingredients.

This writing is expository because it is explaining. In this case, you can already tell that the piece will be about how to make a pumpkin pie.

Non-example:

Everyone knows that the best part about fall is all of the pumpkin-flavored desserts. Pumpkin pie is the best fall treat because it is not only delicious but also nutritious. Pumpkin is filled with vitamin A, which is essential for a healthy immune system and good vision.

This is not expository because several opinions are stated, such as “Pumpkin pie is the best fall treat…” Although this excerpt contains a fact about pumpkin containing vitamin A, that fact is used as evidence to support the opinion. These opinions make this an example of persuasive writing.

3. Argumentation: This type of composition impacts on the readers’ feelings and thoughts. This kind of write up allows the readers to change their mind and opinion. Here, readers get an argument that usually challenge their opinion on a certain thing. Writers try to make the readers convinced with their point of views.

4. Descriptive: This composition represents any situation in a realistic way so that readers can realize the writers’ situation under the same circumstance. This kind of composition is created in such a manner that readers see or hear the same thing what the writers did. In brief, readers get the real and unhindered experience.Persuasive writing’s main purpose is to convince. Unlike expository writing, persuasive writing contains the opinions and biases of the author. To convince others to agree with the author’s point of view, persuasive writing contains justifications and reasons. It is often used in letters of complaint, advertisements or commercials, affiliate marketing pitches, cover letters, and newspaper opinion and editorial pieces.

Key Points:

  • Persuasive writing is equipped with reasons, arguments, and justifications.
  • In persuasive writing, the author takes a stand and asks you to agree with his or her point of view.
  • It often asks for readers to do something about the situation (this is called a call-to-action).

When You Would Use Persuasive Writing:

  • Opinion and editorial newspaper pieces.
  • Advertisements.
  • Reviews (of books, music, movie, restaurants, etc.).
  • Letter of recommendation.
  • Letter of complaint.
  • Cover letters

Example:

Following the 2012 Olympic Games hosted in London, the UK Trade and Investment department reported a £9.9 billion boost to the economy. Although it is expensive to host the Olympics, if done right, they can provide real jobs and economic growth. This city should consider placing a bid to host the Olympics.

This is persuasive writing because the author has a belief—that “this city should consider placing a bid to host the Olympics”—and is trying to convince others to agree.

Non-example:

According to legend, the Olympics were founded by Hercules. Now almost 100 countries participate in the Games, with over two million people attending. So cities from Boston to Hamburg begin considering their bid to be a host city more than 10 years in advance.

All of these statements are facts. Therefore it’s expository. To be persuasive writing, you must have an opinion that you’re trying to persuade people of—then, of course, you will support that opinion with evidence.

Descriptive writing’s main purpose is to describe. It is a style of writing that focuses on describing a character, an event, or a place in great detail. It can be poetic when the author takes the time to be very specific in his or her descriptions.

Example:

In good descriptive writing, the author will not just say: “The vampire killed his lover.”

He or she will change the sentence, focusing on more details and descriptions, like: “The bloody, red-eyed vampire, sunk his rust-colored teeth into the soft skin of his lover and ended her life.”

Key Points:

  • It is often poetic in nature
  • It describes places, people, events, situations, or locations in a highly-detailed manner.
  • The author visualizes what he or she sees, hears, tastes, smells, and feels.

When You Would Use Descriptive Writing:

  • Poetry
  • Journal or diary writing
  • Nature writing
  • Descriptive passages in fiction

Example:

The iPhone 6 is unexpectedly light. While size of its screen is bigger than those of the iPhones that came before, it is thinner, and its smooth, rounded body is made of aluminum, stainless steel, and glass. The casing comes in a whitish silver, gold, or a color the company calls “space gray,” the color of the lead of a pencil, with darker gray accents.

This is an example because it describes aspects of the phone. It includes details such as the size, weight, and material.

Non-example:

So you just brought home a shiny new smartphone with a smooth glass screen the size of your palm. The first thing you will want to do when purchasing a new cell is buy a case. Cracking your screen is an awful feeling, and protection is inexpensive when you compare it to the costs of a new phone.

Even though this example uses adjectives, you can tell that this is not an example of descriptive writing because the purpose is not to describe the phone—it’s to persuade you to buy a case.

 

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