1.
Learning to Write
Good
How to know what you rock at and what you don’t so much
rock at
Well
A Six Traits +1 Framework

2.
WRITING IS HARD TO
MEASURE

3.
How can you talk about what
you’re good at and what
you’re less good at?

4.
Break down
writing in to
categories that you
can handle.

5.
6 Traits + 1
Ideas
Voice Sentence Fluency
Word Choice
Organization Conventions

6.
6 Traits + 1
Ideas
Voice Sentence Fluency
Word Choice
Organization Conventions
Research

7.
Ideas
How do you use
specific details and
elaborate on your
general comments?
I am hopeless with
directions. Yesterday, I got
lost on the way to the
refrigerator and had to
text my little sister to
rescue me.

8.
Word Choice
How do you choose
the correct word or
the surprising
word to convey
meaning?
Sometimes, I get so
angry at my cats I want
to defenestrate them.

9.
Sentence
Fluency
How do you
organize, vary, and
construct your
sentences?
Even though I am over
40-years old, I still,
embarassingly, find
myself thinking that my
dad is going to fix things
when they break.

10.
Voice
How does your
writing create the
impression of a
unique human
being?
What kind of person
chows down on 3 donuts,
4-day old bacon and the
last dregs of grapefruit
juice and calls it dinner?

11.
Organization
How do you order
your writing on the
sentence, paragraph,
and whole level in
order to help the
reader understand?
What if we outlawed
the 5 paragraph essay?
Would there be rioting in
the streets? Would small
children weep for joy?
Would the capitalism
collapse like a deck of
cards? Let’s find out.

12.
Conventions
How do you use
correct grammar
and writing
mechanics to make
your writing clear?
I know how to spell
the word achieve but
surprise, for some
reason, still aludes
me.

13.
6 Traits + 1
Ideas
Voice Sentence Fluency
Word Choice
Organization Conventions

14.
Evaluate the writing on a 1-10 points
scale for each trait.
Ideas
Word
Choice
Sentence
Fluency
Voice
Organization
Conventions