Organization
This part of the essay should engage reader interest, bringing them into your essay with appropriate material that leads into your thesis statement.
What is an introduction?
This is the number of quotes you must have at minimum in your Project 2 essay.
What is two?
This term means to use another person's work without crediting the original source, and is a serious error whether intentional or not.
What is Plagiarism?
Which their/there/they're is correct?
He is standing over ___ .
There
In order to be complete, a sentence needs a verb, a complete thought, and this crucial specific noun or pronoun.
What is a subject?
These are the first sentences of your body paragraphs, mini-theses that state what the idea of the paragraph will be.
What are topic sentences?
This is the required final word count for Project 2
What is 1200 words?
A phrase that acknowledges or indicates a quote or paraphrase came from another author within your sentences is called this.
What is a signal / attributive / lead-in phrase?
Which form of your/you're is used to mean 'you are'?
Spell it.
You're
This type of sentence clause cannot stand on its own, and instead is a fragment of a sentence joined to a complete sentence.
What is dependent?
This part of your essay is often difficult to do on a first draft, and should be saved for revision, because we initially write the way that we think, and we do not usually think using these in between our ideas.
What are transitions?
This is the act of describing the events or parts of a text without analyzing them to give the reader a picture of what occurs in the text, and must make up a paragraph in your essay.
What is summary?
This part of your essay should be its own separate page at the end of your document, and should include all sources used in your essay in alphabetical order.
What is a Works Cited page?
Which form of to/too/two means 'also/excessive'?
Spell the correct form.
Too
This grammatical error is when two independent clauses, or complete sentences, are joined together with just a comma.
What is a comma splice?
This part of your essay should not contain any new information relevant to the argument in your essay, but should instead offer a sense of discovery.
What is a conclusion?
Your essays should be written in this tense when discussing what an author is doing in a text.
What is present tense?
Using sources well in an essay means primarily finding information, evidence, or disagreeable points that do this in your essay, rather than something you can parrot back to a reader.
What is supporting your own ideas?
Affect or Effect:
The policy will ___ many of those that live near water systems.
Affect
This punctuation mark allows you to repair a comma splice by joining two complete sentences together, but without inserting a period followed by a capitalized word.
What is a semi-colon?
This is another, more technical term for an essay's structure: the way an essay decides to move from idea to idea while supporting the thesis statement.
What is a pattern-of-development?
Project 2 must be written entirely in this grammatical point-of-view perspective.
What is third person?
This is when the writer restates in their own words the relevant information from a source's passage.
What is a paraphrase?
My neighbor's cat never stays in ________ yard.
it's / its / it
Spell the correct version
Its
What is a conjunction?