Types of Essays
Writing that uses the five senses to create an image.
Descriptive Essay
Reading for the purpose of pulling information out to use in your writing.
Critical Reading
The notification that a source has been used in a piece of writing to give credit to the original author of the text.
(in-text) citation
The essay should have this item in the Introduction that tells what the essay is about.
Thesis Statement
This character slept next to a dead guy for 30 years.
Miss Emily Grierson
Using examples to make your point.
Exemplification
Annotation
The place where we provide information on the sources used in the development of the essay.
There are two ways a thesis statement can be done. Name both.
Directly stating the Thesis and Implying the thesis.
This doll was portrayed as an evil entity that wants children dead
Annabelle
Using your writing to persuade others to your point of view.
Argumentative
The reason why we write an essay.
Purpose
If you use another's information but rewrite in your own words you are doing this....it still needs to be cited though.
Paraphrasing
Research
The man who stole Miss Emily's heart
Homer Barron
Using essay format to show how two things are similar and different.
Compare and Contrast
The target demographic the writing will read by.
Audience
If you use common language or phrases in your writing, you do not need what two things.
In-Text citation and Works Cited Entry.
The way an essay is worded tells us one of three things was used in deciding how to address your audience or tell the story.
Voice
1st, 2nd, or 3rd person
The evil entity that comes back to life to regain his body organs.
The Mummy
When writing about how an event has impacted a topic and created a series of events that followed.
Cause and Effect
Quickly browsing over a passage to get a ball park idea of what it is about.
Skimming
Type of citation needed for an in person interview.
In-Text citation only.
Sentence error that leaves the reader wondering what the writer meant.
Sentence Fragment
The man who creates the essence of good and evil in one living being.
Dr. Henry Jekyll.