Writing Assignment Write a paragraph in which you describe a place that is special to you, or choose one of these topic suggestions. Topic Suggestions Your classroom Your bedroom or room where you study The student cafeteria at Your favorite room in your house lunchtime Your neighborhood Your grandmother's kitchen A hospital emergency room A crowded bus on a hot day The town square on market day The subway at rush hour The apartment or home of a pack rat A club on a weekend night Your dream house A beach at sunset The clothes closet of a fashionista' A holiday parade Follow the steps in the writing process. Step 1 Prewrite to get ideas. Use the prewriting technique that is most productive for you: freewriting, clustering, or listing. Make an outline Step 2 Write the first draft. Write ROUGH DRAFT at the top of your paper. Begin your paragraph with a topic sentence that names the place and gives a main idea about it. You can give its general size or condition or a general impression. Use an adjective, such as big, small. luxurious, messy, beautiful, plain, wild, mysterious, or comfortable. Use space order (right to left, top to bottom, far to near, and so on) to organize your sentences. Use prepositional phrases to show the order. Put some of the prepositional phrases at the beginning of their sentences Write several sentences that give descriptive details. You can describe objects, and you can also tell what people are doing in the place. Use adjectives in your descriptive details. End your paragraph with a sentence that tells your feeling about the place. Step 3 Edit the first draft. Edit your paragraph with a partner as you have done in previous chapters. Use the Reader's Response 4B and Writer's Self-Check 4B on pages 204 and 205 Step 4 Write the final copy. Write a neat final copy of your paragraph to hand in to your teacher. Your teacher also ask you to hand in your prewriting, your outline, and your other drafts