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Language Learning Center. Matthew David Collins Pizzorno Adjunct Faculty Palomar College and ALCI: CSU San Marcos. Writing Workshop for Multilingual Speakers and Writers. Discovering the Writer within: The Academic Writing Process. Upon finishing this workshop, you will be able to:.

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  1. Language Learning Center Matthew David Collins Pizzorno Adjunct Faculty Palomar College and ALCI: CSU San Marcos Writing Workshop for Multilingual Speakers and Writers

  2. Discovering the Writer within: The Academic Writing Process

  3. Upon finishing this workshop, you will be able to: • Understand a writing prompt, so you can discover the information you already posses. • Apply your knowledge of the writing process to understand a prompt, come up with your own ideas, and begin to organize these ideas into a coherent structure.

  4. What is the meaning of a PROCESS? • How does this meaning apply to Academic Writing? • (How should you begin to organize your thoughts and ideas after you receive your writing assignment?)

  5. 4 Main Characteristics of the Academic writing process • Choose a Topic • Brainstorm(This is the most VITAL component) • Organize/Outline • What are the Main ideas? • What are the supporting ideas) • Write, and Write, and Write, and Write, and Write some more–

  6. Let’s Practice These concepts…

  7. Choosing a Topic:What is your professor asking you to do?? Prompt #1: Some students prefer to study alone. Others prefer to study with a group of students. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. Prompt #2: Technology makes communication easier in today's world. Many people choose to work at home in front of a computer screen. What danger does the society face by depending on computer screens rather than face-to-face contact as the main means of communication?

  8. TIPS ON BRAINSTORMING FOR AN ESSAY: Ground Rules Focus on quantity: Withhold criticism: Welcome unusual ideas: Combine and improve ideas: 1+1=3 Brainstorming:Thinking about the topic and discovering your inner writer

  9. More Brainstorming: TIPS ON BRAINSTORMING FOR AN ESSAY: I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling

  10. Taking down our fabulous brainstorming ideas: Starting to Organize our Writing What is this thing????

  11. Graphic Organizers http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/ In order to really use these ideas, you must discover what GRAPHIC ORGSNIZER is right for you. Check this out when you have a few minutes……. But for today’s workshop, let’s use my favorite Graphic Organizer…..A Mind Map or Cluster Diagram.

  12. Contact Me: Mpizzorn@csusm.com • Ideas for future workshops????????????? • Sign in Sheet • Questionnaire

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