Discursive Writing Self-Editing Checklist Complete

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Discursive writing self-editing Checklist Complete

Explores an issue or an idea and may suggest a position or point of view

Approaches a topic from different angles and explores themes and issues
in a style that balances personal observations with different perspectives

Uses personal anecdotes

Effective voice established (consistent throughout)

Has a conversational tone

Primarily uses first person

Draws upon real life experiences

Draws from wider reading

Varies sentence length for purposeful effect

Uses engaging imagery

Uses Ethos (creditability), pathos (emotion), and logos (logic)

Uses rhetorical devices such as hypophora, rhetorical questions,


anaphora etc

Begins with an event, an anecdote or relevant quote that is then used to


explore and idea

Resolution may be reflective or open-ended

Clear and consistent theme maintained

Correct spelling and punctuation

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