University of Life Writing Center

Some concepts apply to any writing you do.

This page has the following sub pages.

• Purpose
• Audience
  • Cooperative Readers
• The Writing Spectrum
• Presentation
• Clarity
  • What Undermines Clarity?
  • Strategies for Clear Expression
• Content
  • Introductions
  • Body
    • Bombproof
      • Logos
        • Assertions
        • To Think or Not to Think
        • Evidence
        • Warrant
        • Logical Fallacies
      • Pathos
        • Humor
      • Ethos
    • Development
  • Conclusions