Writing Book 6 · Lesson 25

Content

Content is the substance of the essay — and it is judged last because judging it needs every other layer working.

What you read today

Essay Voyage, pages 119–124 — the chapter Content.

This lesson's text is the book itself. Your teacher has the pages; read them with the class, then do the work on your sheet.

Remember
Read it as a writer: not only what happens, but what the author did to make it happen that way.
Ask yourself: “What does my reader know now that they did not before?”

Remember

Everything else is how you say it. This is whether you had anything to say.

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