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 * Authors must ask themselves specific, productive questions in order to generate powerful writing **

**Course: Advanced Writing** **Professor: Dr. Ahmadi** **Student: Bahrami** **Date: 91. 08. 11**

Answer some basic questions first Before you start writing a draft, think and scribble around answering these questions: etc? Answering these questions will help you to be clearer, more confident and quicker in your writing process. What is your objective with your writing? What do you want to achieve? What do you hope your audience or reader will think, feel, know or do afterwards? We write for many reasons. It is good to identify a main objective. Sometimes we have additional objectives. But if you have too many, you may weaken your piece of writing by trying to achieve too many things at once. Your audience can end up feeling overloaded and confused if your objective is not clear, or there are too many. Be able to let go of some secondary objectives – you can tell yourself to hold them for another publication or piece of writing so you can come back to them another time. So why do people write? People write, amongst other reasons, to: What are you writing? What have your written in your organization? You can probably think of many different types of writing. They could include: _ Short pieces of writing, like: Longer pieces of writing, like: //planning//, //Action planning//, and //Monitoring and Evaluation//) Your objective, what your writing is finally produced as, and who you are writing for go hand in hand. For example, a slogan from your policy recommendations like //gives us back our land!// Could fit on a T-shirt that members of the community wear. But your slogan on aT-shirt cannot replace your detailed and considered policy recommendations fromindigenous people reclaiming ancestral land. This probably needs to be produced as apolicy paper or booklet aimed at government. ** Also there some questions that writer must ask themselves: **
 * Authors before start to write must know why they want to write, and to whom they want to write. To answer these questions will help them to write a powerful text. In other hand there are a numbers of questions that will help writer to write a powerful and comprehension text that attract readers.**
 * Some questions are as follow:**
 * Why am I writing this?
 * What do I want to achieve?
 * Who am I writing for?
 * What do I want people to think, feel, know or do after they have read it?
 * What would be the best form for it to be written in? An article, pamphlet, poster,
 * Reasons for writing**
 * advocate
 * agitate
 * educate
 * entertain
 * evoke certain emotions
 * debate
 * inform
 * lobby
 * mobilise
 * persuade
 * plan
 * promote particular action
 * strategies
 * raise awareness
 * train
 * win an argument
 * applications
 * badges (See our toolkit //Producing your own media//)
 * banners (See our toolkit //Producing your own media//)
 * conditions of service
 * e-mail messages (See our toolkit //Writings within your organisation//)
 * fax messages (See our toolkit //Writings within your organisation//)
 * graffiti (See our toolkit //Producing your own media//)
 * letters (See our toolkit //Writings within your organisation//)
 * lists
 * memos (See our toolkit //Writings within your organisation//)
 * minutes (See our toolkit //Writings within your organisation//)
 * notices
 * opinion pieces
 * pamphlets (See our toolkit //Producing your own media//)
 * posters (See our toolkit //Producing your own media//)
 * presentations (See our toolkit //Producing your own media//)
 * press statements (See our toolkit //Handling the media//)
 * responses
 * stickers (See our toolkit //Producing your own media//)
 * summaries
 * web site information
 * appraisals
 * arguments
 * articles
 * booklets
 * case studies
 * evaluations
 * funding proposals (See our toolkit //Writing a funding proposal//)
 * newsletters (See our toolkit //Producing your own media//)
 * planning documents (See our toolkits //Overview of planning//, //Strategic//
 * policy
 * reports of different kinds (See our toolkit //Writings within your organization//)
 * reviews
 * speeches (See our toolkit //Promoting your organization//)
 * stories (See our toolkit //Producing your own media//)
 * strategy documents
 * training materials
 * What is your objective? And who is your audience?**

// 10 Questions Writers Must Ask Themselves //
Here’s what you should be asking yourself as a writer: 1. Why am I doing //this//? 2. Who am I trying to impress? 3. Can I explain this in three sentences? 4. Who would want to read this? 5. How will this contribute to the way readers view life? 6. Am I friends with a bunch of other writers? 7. What have I had for influence lately? 8. What would happen to me if I stopped? 9. What kind of recognition am I hoping for? 10. Is there something else I should be doing**?** However, different kind of productive questions are mention here: Cause students to pay attention to significant details. //Have you seen. . . ? What have you noticed about. . . ? What are they doing?// //How does it feel/smell/look?// Help students become more precise about their observations. How many. . . ? How often. . .? How long. . . ? How much. . . ? Require students to analyze and classify. //How are these the same or different?// //How do they go together?// Encourage students to explore the properties of unfamiliar materials, living or nonliving, and of small events taking place or to make predictions about phenomena**.** //What happens if. . . ? What would happen if. . . ? What if. . . ?// Allow students to plan and implement solutions to problems. //Can you find a way to. . . ? Can you figure out how to. . . ?// Help students think about experiences and construct ideas that make sense to them. //Why do you think. . . ? What is your reason. . . ? Can you invent a rule for. . . ?// Encourage students to think about their own thinking. //What have you discovered? How do you know? What do you wonder? What will you do next? How do you decide what to do next? How do you decide what to record? How do you know when to stop? Do you every give up your idea/question/explanation? When? Why? What makes your reverse your explanation?//
 * Attention-Focusing Questions**
 * Measuring and Counting Questions**
 * Comparison Questions**
 * Action Questions**
 * Problem-Posing Questions**
 * Reasoning Questions**
 * Metacognitive Questions**

Martens, M. L. (1999, May). Productive Questions: Tools for Supporting Constructivist Learning. //Science & Children.// P. 26. Writing effectively and powerfully by Karen Hurt (for feedback, email ** toolkits@civicus.org **) http://www.exploratorium.edu/ifi/ https://empoweringwriters.com
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