waiting until last minute to write your paper. (Page 141)
What is Procrastination?
100
Making sure you have enough quality information
What is preparing to start the draft?
100
Writing about your writing in order to stay focused on the purpose. (Page 196)
What is mission statement?
200
Convincing your readers to think or do something about your research. (Page 142)
What is an argument?
200
creating multiple research questions that evolve from each other to reflect your new understandings of your topic. (Page 153)
What is refining the research question?
200
A question that moves the reader from beginning to end.(Page 150)
What is the importance of a key question?
300
Helping your readers appreciate what you have found interesting or complicated about your topic (page 142)
What is an exploratory essay?
300
The writer becomes apart of the text to initiate conversation with the reader and with sources. (Page 157)
What is first person?
300
A structure that suggests its own ending with a problem at the top and offers readers solutions and resolutions.(Page 191)
What is a Problem and solution ending?
400
When your initial research question leads you toward an idea about what should be done or what the readers should believe. Used in an argumentative paper. (Page 147)
Long-sentences: create a flow of understanding for the reader.
Short-sentences: slow the pace
1.)To simplify the complex
2.)To create suspense
3.)To focus on the emotional truth
(Page 89)
What is the importance of setting the pace?
500
"What do I understand now about the question I initially asked that I dint understand when I first asked it, and what in the new understanding is particularly important?" Used in a exploratory essay. (Page 148)
What is Delayed-thesis structure?
500
Sense of purpose throughout the essay, topics that relate to readers existing knowledge, add something to the ending that readers don't know, emphasize unknown information. (Page 164)
What is writing for the readers interest?
500
the subject is serious or dramatic, creating an effect that the story tells itself
the subject is playful or inconsequential
What is a good place to show off and when to back off in writing?