Essay Organization
Proofreading Marks
Homophones
Six Traits of Writing
The Writing Process
100
This is the sentence that makes a claim, provides a road map for your paper and is usually found at the end of the introduction.
What is the thesis?
100
The need for this is indicated by three lines under a character.
What is a capital letter?
100
A possesive personal pronoun, an adverb used to point out direction, the contraction "they are".
What is their, there, and they're?
100
This trait focuses on the rules of punctuation, capitalization, spelling and grammar?
What is Conventions?
100
This first step in the writing process may include listing, webbing, brainstorming, or freewriting.
What is pre-writing?
200
These are the two types of compare/contrast organizational structures that we worked with for our essay.
What is block and point-by-point?
200
These two letters when circled and placed above a word indicate an error in orthography.
What is s and p?
200
A preposition meaning "in the direction of", also or very, the number.
What is to, too, and two?
200
This trait refers to the order of the ideas, beginning, middle and end. It also looks at logically progression of thought and the use of transitions.
What is Organization?
200
This draft should be completely clean of surface errors and ready to publish.
What is the Final Draft?
300
These sentences support the topic sentence by using quotes, ideas, observations, or date that support the claim in your thesis.
What are concrete details?
300
This is done in order to indicate that one must make a capital letter lowercase.
What is put a backslash through the incorrect capital letter?
300
Homophones with the following meanings: to take without permission and a type of metal.
What is steal and steel?
300
This trait holds the heart of your writing, the message you want to communicate and the focus of your essay.
What is Ideas?
300
This step is the writer's first chance to get everything on paper in essay format.
What is drafting?
400
This is done after stating a topic sentence and provide a concrete detail.
What is the further explanation of the concrete detail through commentary by supporting the topic sentence and thesis?
400
This symbol in conjunction with a carrot, shows that a space is needed between the characters.
What is the pound/number sign?
400
Homophones with the meanings: correct, to inscribe, opposite of left
What is right, write and right?
400
This trait considers the quality of nouns, verbs, and modifiers used in your writing.
What is Word Choice?
400
This the step in which a fellow student/adult reads and gives feedback on your essay.
What is Peer Editing?
500
These are the four things that must be included in a MLA style heading.
What is your name, teacher's name, course name, and date in which the paper is due?
500
This correction is indicated by a mark through a word, letter, or sentence that ends with a loop.
What is delete or remove?
500
a coin, an odor, past tense of a verb that means "to deliver"
What is cent, scent, and sent?
500
This trait refers to the flow of senetnces and the rhythm of phrases and clauses.
What is Sentence Fluency?
500
This is the difference between revision and proofreading.
What is revision focuses on ideas and organization, while proofreading checks only for errors in conventions?
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