Two types of writing

Two types of writing

1. Write to support our lives

   • writing to live
   • writing things down and filling things out
     • telephone numbers
     • people's names
     • reminder notes
     • surveys
     • logs
   • notebooks
   • diaries
   • journals
   • give information
     • checks
     • official forms
     • labels
     • addresses

2. Write to communicate ideas to others

   • begins with an idea a writers wants to communicate
   • developed in writer's thinking
   • takings ideas and expressing them in ways that make readers understand or feel something
   • writing to answer essay questions on tests
   • writing up results of a science inquiry
   • writing position papers in social studies