Types of Writing
Literacy Genres
Literacy Genres Continued
Writing Steps
Reading and Writing
100
The writer gives details about how two things may be alike or different. 
What is an compare and contrast writing?
100
An account of a person's life written by that person. 
What is an autobiography? 
100

A novel, play, or movie dealing with a puzzling crime, especially a murder.

What is a mystery?
100
The step of writing where you plan what you are going to write often using an outline. 
What is pre-writing?
100

An alphabetical list of terms or words found in or relating to a specific subject, text, or dialect, with explanations; a brief dictionary (Usually found in the back of the book). 

What is the glossary?
200
The type of writing that gives facts or directions, identifies terms, or clarifies ideas. 
What is expository writing? 
200
An account of a person's life written by someone other than that person. 
What is a biography? 
200

Speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.


What is science fiction?
200
The fourth step of writing where you fine tune what you have written. 
What is editing?
200

An alphabetical list of names, or subjects with references to the places where they occur, typically found at the end of a book.

What is the index?
300
Writing that is used to try and convince the reader about something. 
What is persuasive writing? 
300
A story or setting based on imagination.
What is fiction?
300

A legendary or a traditional story that usually concerns an event, or a hero, with or without using factual or real explanations, particularly one concerning with demigods or deities.

What is a myth?
300
The second step in which you begin a rough draft.
What is writing?
300
List the 3 most commin citation styles.
What is MLA, APA, Chicago?
400
The writer tells about how something looks, feels, smells, tastes, or sounds like. 
What is descriptive writing? 
400
A story or setting based on a true event. 
What is non-fiction?
400
Reconstruction of past events into fictional stories. 
What is historical fiction?


400
The third step in which you add, rearrange, remove, and replace parts of your writing. 
What is revision?
400

The 3 purposes for writing are...

What is entertainment, persuasive, and informational?

500
The writer tells a true story or an imaginary story. 
What is narrative writing?
500

A story originating in popular culture, typically passed on by word of mouth.

What is a folktale?
500

Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.

What is poetry?
500
The fifth and final step of writing when you have your final draft. 
What is publishing?
500
How many paragraphs does a standard essay have? List what each paragraph is.
What is 5, Introduction, Body 1, Body 2, Body 3, Conclusion?
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