Best Practices
The first thing you should do when beginning the FAST Writes is.
What is, read the prompt?
This is the first part of an Introduction.
What is a hook?
What three things should each body paragraph begin with?
What is an indention, transition word/phrase, and a topic sentence?
How many paragraphs should you write for an Informative Essay and an Argumentative Essay?
What is 4 paragraphs for an Informative Essay and 5 for an Argumentative Essay?
This essay communicates straight-forward, fact-based unbiased knowledge (gives no opinion).
What is Informative?
The second thing you should do when beginning the FAST Writes is.
What is, turn the prompt into a question?
This is the second part of an Introduction paragraph.
What is connecting information?
What is the information you are getting from the passages called?
What is evidence?
This is included in an argumentative essay that isn't included in an informative essay.
What is a counterclaim?
This essay presents ideas to support an opinion, or to argue and support a claim.
What is Argumentative?
The third thing you should do when beginning the FAST Writes is.
What is, read the sources with a purpose? Or, what is, read the sources to answer the prompt's question?
This is the last and most important part of the introduction paragraph.
What is a Thesis Statement?
After you present the information in your body paragraphs, what is the next thing you must add?
What is elaboration?
The first part of the conclusion paragraph includes these 2 things.
What is a transition word/phrase and restated thesis statement?
When you have finished writing your essay, it is imperative that you do this next.
What is proofread, edit, and revise?
Turn the following prompt into a question:
Write an explanatory essay to inform fellow citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage.
What is, What are the advantages of limiting car usage?
The structure of an Informative Essay Thesis Statement is.
What is Subject and 2 topics?
Before or after every piece of evidence that you have included in your essay, you must include this in order to get higher than 2 points in the Evidence and Elaboration category.
What is a citation?
These are two examples of hooks.
What is an Interesting Question Hook, Strong Statement/Declaration Hook, Fact/Statistic Hook, Metaphor/ Simile Hook, Story Hook, Description Hook, and a Quotation Hook.
These 2 transition words/phrases are a great way to start body paragraph 1 and body paragraph 2.
What is, To being with, and In addition?
The most effective way to ensure that your writing is organized and on topic is to.
What is, plan?
The structure of an Argumentative Thesis Statement is.
What is Counterclaim, claim, and 2 topics?
There should be this many pieces of evidence included in each body paragraph?
Each paragraph should have evidence from _____________ sources.
What is, you should include at least 2 pieces of evidence in each body paragraph. Each piece should be from a different source.
Two ways to write a gift include.
What is, play the so what? game, return to the theme or themes in the introduction, include a provocative insight or quotation, and point to broader implications??
This is the way you should structure the counterclaim paragraph for an argumentative essay.
What is, Many people believe that . . . , however, . . . .