Composition writing

WRITING compositions — This gets relevant as learners start new terms and syllabuses. You are aware that a composition is a group of related paragraphs.

Like any other piece of writing, a composition is the product of many prewriting steps. It requires thought, organization, and careful development.

Discovering subjects of writing — For many people, finding a subject is the most difficult part of writing. However, if you stop to think about your many experiences, you will discover that you have many subjects for writing.

A good subject for writing is one that you know about from your experience or from ideas that you have. Some of the subjects you write may be from your hobbies or interests.

You may have had some funny or interesting experiences taking care of other people’s pets, or you may have become an expert babysitter. You may want to write about a person you admire or a favourite place.

Other subjects for writing may be from ideas you have.

You may want to explain the reasons why you feel your high school should have a student council. All of these could be excellent subjects for compositions.

After gathering information about a topic for composition writing, the next step is to decide how to use the information.

To do this ask yourself three questions: What is my purpose in writing this paper? Who are my readers for this article? What is my point of view?

Every composition has a purpose that is related to the topic.

Your reader affects the way you write. Unless your teacher tells you otherwise, the readers for your composition are your teacher, your classmates and finally your public examiner. Keep these readers in mind as you write your composition. If you write about a subject they may not know, you may need to define words and give examples.

Your point of view also affects the way you write. The last question to ask yourself is about your point of view — your relationship to your subject. Are you an authority on your subject? Do you know more about your subject than your readers? If you do know more than your readers, you will be giving them information that they do not know, and your composition is more likely to be interesting. If you do not know any more about your subject than your readers, you probably have to do some research.

You can still make your subject interesting if you have an unusual or humorous point of view. Research is very important in learning. Students should develop their research skills. With the coming of the Heritage-based curriculum, students will be forced to research. Details in a composition must have logical order. To decide how to arrange details, look back at your topic and at your purpose for writing.

Writing a composition means more than putting several paragraphs together. You must also decide how to introduce your topic, how to use paragraphs to develop your topic, and how to end your article.

An introduction names your topic and says something interesting about it. Your introduction should make readers look forward to reading your article. Use sense details to write an introductory paragraph for a composition on the topic you will have selected.

The body of the composition is the part that develops your topic. In the body of the composition is the part that actually develops your topic.

In the body of the composition, each main heading of your informal outline may become a separate paragraph.
Good compositions are unified and coherent. A composition is unified when each paragraph develops the topic of the composition.

A composition is coherent when the reader can easily tell how the paragraphs relate to the topic and to each other.

Writing the conclusion

A conclusion is a final paragraph that comes after the body of the composition — it brings the work to a close.

The conclusion should do more than restate what the writer has already said.

A good conclusion should tie together the various points you have made and help you achieve the purpose of your writing.

Here is a checklist for revising a composition: The introductory paragraph introduces the topic and interests the reader in the composition.

The topic is discussed clearly. Either the information is new to readers, or the composition has an unusual point of view.
Each paragraph develops the topic; the composition is unified.

Readers can tell how the paragraphs relate to each other and to the subject; your work is coherent.

The concluding paragraph tells the reader that the discussion is completed.

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