Choosing Ideas to Write About | Organizing Your Writing | Giving Your Writing Your Voice | Choosing the Right Words | Conventions | Presentation

When your writing carries your voice, it comes alive, and makes the text unmistakably yours.  What do you care most about?  What is your biggest concern?  What is your hope for the future?  Writing gives you the power to communicate all of these things.  Take risks and express who you are in your writing!

Your voice will appear in your writing when you experiment with matching your writing’s purpose with your reading audience.  Your voice will also make itself known when you write directly to your reader, on an emotional level.

One way to think of what your voice is like is to describe it as if it were an animal, a color, or a favorite piece of clothing.  What would your voice be?  Now, keep that picture in your mind as you write.

Here are some words that might help you describe your voice:

Courageous

Critical

Caring

Sarcastic

Warm

Happy

Frightened

Voice is what connects the writer to the reader.  It is just important to show your voice, as it is to have a good idea and to organize your thoughts.