WRITING UNIT-LESSONS
Updated 22Jan98 for Winter 1998


HOMILETICS II
Expository Biblical Preaching
Andrews University . Department of Religion . Keith E.K. Mattingly . GH206 . Phone 471-3187 . Home 471-3088

  1. Edit Your Writing
  2. Differentiate Between Speaking and Writing
  3. Control the Subject of Your Sentence
  4. Control Your Sentence Predication
  5. Control your information: subordination
  6. Achieve unity through point of view
  7. Build paragraph patterns
  8. Define images and ideas
  9. Develop topics by comparison
  10. Express attitude through word choice
  11. Convey meaning through tone
  12. Arrive at the controlling idea
  13. Compress and expand ideas
  14. Develop the controlling idea
  15. Weigh both your facts and opinions
  16. Concentrate on each part of the paragraph
  17. Vary sentence beginnings and lengths
  18. Link ideas with transitional elements
  19. Write connected sentences
  20. Develop your ideas fully
  21. Support judgments with specific information
  22. Support your statements with examples
  23. Use concrete words
  24. Describe action effectively
  25. Increase verb density
  26. Shift sentence parts for emphasis
  27. Use emphasis to enforce meaning
  28. Match simplicity of ideas and form
  29. Arrange ideas in a natural order
  30. Mirror yourself in your writing
  31. Reveal voice in what you write
  32. Use figurative language
  33. Enliven writing through extended metaphor
  34. Organize experience through images
  35. Convey visual experience
  36. Recognize the sounds in language


References

Katherine M. Blickhahn et al. Writing: Unit-lessons in Composition. Foundations Book A.
Don P. Brown et al. Writing: Unit-lessons in Composition. Book 2B.