The Writing Process
Genre, Genre, & More Genre
Grammar & Punctuation
Research & Sources
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100

This is the first step in the writing process, where you generate ideas and information.

What is Brainstorming?

100

This type of essay requires you to analyze and interpret a piece of literature or other text. 

What is Literary Analysis?

100

This punctuation mark is used to separate items in a list. 

What is a comma?

100

This is the term for the process of determining the credibility and reliability of a source. 

What is Source Evaluation?

100

This type of writing outlines possible research questions you wish to investigate in a larger project. 

What is a Research Proposal?

200

This step involves creating a plan or roadmap for your writing, including an introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion.

What is Outlining?

200

This type of essay relies on the author's personal experiences. 

What is a Reflection?

200
A sentence that includes two or more independent clauses without proper punctuation or conjunction is called this.

What is a Run-on or Fused Sentence?

200

Works Cited and Reference Pages are sorted in this way.

Alphabetically.

200

This strategy juxtaposes the author's argument with an additional, though differing, point of view.

What is a counterargument?

300

This step involves making changes to the content and/or organization of your writing based on feedback from peers or instructors.

What is Revision?

300

This type of essay often analyzes choices by an author or creator in order to make a larger point about a text or form of media.

What is Rhetorical Analysis?

300

This punctuation mark is used between two separate but related independent clauses.

What is a semicolon?
300

This is the purpose of a citation.

What is "to credit the original author/speaker"?

300

This type of writing combines Works Cited entries with summaries and evaluations of each source. 

What is an Annotated Bibliography?

400

This campus resource specializes in knowledge of the writing process and its many facets. 

What is the Writing Center?

400

This type of writing is used in hostage negotiation.

What is a Ransom Note?

400

A misplaced or unnecessary comma in a clause is called this.

What is a comma-splice?

400

Identify the source type of this citation: Haase, Donald. “Children, War, and the Imaginative Space of Fairy Tales,” The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 24, no. 3, 2000, pp. 360-77.

What is a Journal Article?

400

This is the name of my future skateboarding Russian Tortoise.

What is Sir?

500

This step is often skipped.

What is Proofreading?

500

This type of writing will be super useful in Isaac's future career.

What is Persuasive writing?

500

Choose the correct verb tense to complete this sentence: "I ___ to the gym every day last week."

What is "went"?

500

Identify the source type from this citation: 

Caruth, Cathy. “Traumatic Departures: Survival and History in Freud (Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Moses and Monotheism).” Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History, John’s Hopkins University Press, 1996, pp. 57-72. Project MUSE. doi:10.1353/book.20656. Accessed 10 Apr. 2023.

What is a Chapter in a Book?

500

This is the citation style used most commonly by academic publishers but not used often in English classrooms.

What is APA?

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