Types of writing
This type of writing often has a musical feature to it. Different styles of it can have different rules.
What is poetry?
Can be used in informal writing to express one's personal beliefs.
What is opinion?
These are the three essential parts of an introductory paragraph.
What are topic sentence, background information, and thesis statement?
This gives the writer definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and correct spelling of words.
What is dictionary?
This is centered at the top of an essay.
What is the title?
This type of writing is informal and is written by the subject, about the subject.
What is narrative writing?
Used in informal first person writing. Examples include: I, me, my, you, we, us, and our
What are personal pronouns?
These are the three essential parts of a conclusion paragraph.
What are summary, strongest point, and call to the audience?
This gives a writer synonyms and antonyms of a word.
What is thesaurus?
This is left aligned at the top of an essay. It is the first thing typed on the essay.
What is the heading?
This type of writing is formal, research based, and persuades and reader to pick a side.
What is argumentative writing?
This is the reason that an author writes a story, essay, or novel.
What is author's purpose?
This is the first box of a body paragraph in the "PERFECT outline".
What is introduce topic?
This is used as a brainstorm that puts the ideas for an essay in sequential order.
What is an outline?
This is the indicator that a new paragraph is starting.
What is indention?
This type of writing is formal, research based, and tells about a specific topic.
What is informational writing?
These words or phrases help move from one thought to the next without saying "This is about..." or "Those are the reasons why...".
What are transitions?
The second and third boxes of a body paragraph in the "PERFECT outline".
What are citation and quote?
This is the process of having someone else revise a piece of writing before a final draft is written.
What is peer review?
This is the page at the end of an essay that lists the sources used for research and text evidence.
What is the works cited page?
This type of writing tells the process of doing something or why something is a certain way.
What is explanatory writing?
This is the way that the reader feels. This feeling is often set by the author's tone.
What is mood?
The fourth and fifth boxes of a body paragraph in the "PERFECT outline".
What are explain the quote and elaboration?
This is a process that must be done after an essay is written, but before the final draft is submitted, in order to catch any errors made by the author.
What is read the entire essay?
This goes directly after a quoted piece of text evidence. It is written like this: (lastname #).
What is in-text citation?