Writing

**What Are the Six Traits?**  > **Good writing has clear ideas, a purpose, or focus. It should have specific ideas and details. > **Writing should have a beginning, middle, and an ending and be well organized and easy to follow. > **Your writing should connect with your audience, fit your purpose for writing, and reveal your voice. > **Good writing has specific nouns and verbs and strong words that deliver the writer's message. > **Sentences should vary in length, with a variety of sentence beginnings. The writing should flow smoothly from sentence to sentence. > **Strong writing is edited for grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling so the writer's ideas are easily understood. 
 * 1) **Ideas
 * 1) **Organization
 * 1) **Voice
 * 1) **Word Choice
 * 1) **Sentence Fluency
 * 1) **Conventions