The Writing Process
Definitions
Fragment, Run-on, or Correct
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Fix the verbs
100
Listing as many ideas about your topic without rejecting any of them.
What is brainstorming?
100
A group of words that contain a subject and a verb.
What is a clause?
100
Yesterday it rained.
What is correct?
100
A type of clause that expresses a complete thought.
What is an independent clause?
100
The little girl go to the movies every day.
What is 'goes'?
200
Before you hand in your final draft, it is important that you read it over and do a final check for any mistakes. This is called _____.
What is editing?
200
When you write about another author's idea in your own words.
What is a paraphrase?
200
I went to the movies with my brother we saw Star Trek.
What is a run-on sentence?
200
A fact, question or anecdote designed to capture the readers attention, usually found in the introduction.
What is a hook?
200
While he was driving to work, he see an accident.
What is saw?
300
This type of essay you tells a story or illustrates something that the author has learned.
What is a narrative?
300
When you take someone else's words or ideas and pass them off as your own.
What is plagiarism?
300
I couldn't go out. Because I had to clean up the house.
What is a fragment?
300
Quickly reading a text to understand the general main idea.
What is skimming?
300
I am living in New York since 2012.
What is 'have lived' or 'have been living'?
400
A sentence that tells the reader what the paragraph will be about. Each paragraph should start with one of these.
What is a topic sentence?
400
A clause does not express a complete idea.
What is a dependent clause
400
After it rained. I saw a rainbow.
What is a fragment?
400
When you repeat exactly what another author wrote and cite the author's name.
What is a direct quote?
400
I was leaving the house when the telephone rings.
What is 'rang'?
500
An essay that first lists the oppositions points of view, and them attempts to refute them all.
What is an argumentative essay.
500
The language of persuasion.
What is rhetoric?
500
The rain soon stopped, the children came out to play.
What is a run-on or comma splice?
500
Words such as and, or, but are used to join two independent clauses. We call these words ____.
conjunctions
500
By the time I got to the party, they already leave.
By the time I got to the party, they had already left.
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