What is the writer's purpose/position or what information doew the writer want to get across?
100
These are ways you can narrow a topic before you write.
What are free-writing, brainstorming, clustering/mapping, journaling, discussing, and using the Internet?
100
?This is known as LOGICAL ORDER or ARRANGEMENT.
What is time order (chronological), space order (spacial), or order of importance?
100
This is revision.
What is "re-seeing," and what is
determining if the writer made his/her point OR c
hanging the arrangement OR
making certain everything belongs?
100
Name the parts of speech.
What are NOUNS - PRONOUNS - ADJECTIVES - ADVERBS - VERBS - PREPOSITIONS - CONJUNCTINS - and INTERJECTIONS?
200
These things help you understand content in what you read in your textbooks. P 31
What are boldface words, heading, charts, boxes, lists, chapter reviews, and summaries?
200
This is the sentence that summarizes the main point you will write about in your paper.
What is a topic sentence or a thesis statement?
200
This is a detailed plan of your paragraph or essay.
What is an outline?
200
This is editing.
What are correcting problems with grammar, punctuation, spelling, and word choice?
200
These constiture a complete sentence.
What are subjects, verbs, and complete thoughts?
300
This is critical reading.
What is THINKING about what you read while you read it? (Active reading = making notes & highlighting, etc.)
300
This is called support for your writing.
What is the collction of examples, facts, or evidence that shows, explains, or proves the main point?
OR
What is PFRET?
300
This is the first whole version of all your ideas put together in a piece of writing.
What is a draft?
300
This means that all the points you make are related to your main point; the are UNIFIED in support of yur main point.
What is unity?
300
This connects a noun, pronoun, or verb with other information about it.
What is a preposition?
400
This is your audience.
Who is the person or people who will read what you write?
400
Describe PRIMARY and SECONDARY support.
What are the points (PRIMARY) that back up the main point of your writing, AND what are the points (SECONDARY) that give details to back up the primary support?
400
This refers to the main point and makes an observation based on what you have writter.
What is the concluding sentence?
400
This means that all your support connects to form a whole, and that even when the points and details are assembled in an order that makes sense, they still need this GLUE to connect them.
What is coherence?
400
Name the 3 kinds of verbs we use.
What are action verbs, helping verbs, and linking verbs?
500
These are the three parts of an essay.
What are the introduction paragraph & thesis statement, the body paragraphs with support, and the concluding paragraph.
500
These are the basics of good support.
What is relating to the main point, considering the reader, and having details and specifics?
500
What is a hook?
What are 1) opening with a quote, 2) giving an example, 3) telling a story, 4) stating an unexpected or surprising idea, 5) offering a strong opinion or position, and 6) asking a question?
500
These are words, phrases, and sentences that connect your ideas so tht your writing moves smoothly from one point to the next.
What are transitions?
500
This is an idea, expressed in a sentence, that makes sense by itself without other sentences.