Writing Tasks - Piece Layout

1.
Read the Question! It will reveal three key things for you:
PURPOSE - Inf/Exp/Des or Arg/Pers/Adv or Ana/Rev/Comm
AUDIENCE - Peers, teachers, parents, public, readers (you'd write very differently if it was your friends than if it was a group of teachers!)
FORMAT - What style are you writing in? Speech, Plain Writing (where it doesn't give you a format), Letter, Article, Talk.

2.
Now plan!
Plan at least FOUR points you will cover - these will be your descriptive paragraphs.
E.g. - "The moon is made of green cheese" Write the words of a speech defending your point of view.
Plan
- Look of the moon
- Cheese chunks falling to earth
- Americans on moon - cheese secrets
- Preserved in space

3.
Introduction
This is where you grab your audience. Try one of these techniques
- Short one/two word sentences (Moon. Cheese. Moon Cheese. These fit together)
- An alternative idea (The moon is just a piece of rock. This might be what you first think but ...)
- Addressing Audience (You may think ...)
- Exaggerated Start (Everyone everywhere eats moon cheese)
- Anecdote (I first had moon cheese when I was ...)

4.
Writing main
Each paragraph should be:
- Descriptive
- Start in an interesting way
- USE A VARIETY OF SENTENCE LENGTHS.
- Have a wide range of punctuation.

5.
Ending
Some techniques to try
- Summarise your points
- Reiterate your point from the introduction
- Moral of the story ... (i.e. what have you learned)
- What you want your audience to do/take away.

6.
CHECK
- Remember you can always:
- Add punctuation
- Alter paragraphs
- Add in extra words/take out useless ones
- Correct spellings
- Re order sentences
(Unfortunately this does mean re-reading your work but that one extra semi-colon/paragraph/descriptive word could make all the difference)