Writing Process
The act of systematically generating ideas for a writing project
What is invention?
A group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
Two qualities of a strong thesis
What are clear, arguable/debatable, non-obvious, compelling/significant, or specific?
In the TEXAS paragraph model, the E stands for this
What is explanation?
The entity that utters the words of a poem, distinct from the biographical poet
What is the speaker?
Large-scale changes to a paper's ideas and structure, as distinct from sentence-level edits and proofreading
What is global revision?
The base of Mitchell's Hierarchy of Needs, representing the most fundamental and important aspect of your paper
What are interesting, original ideas (with textual evidence)?
Trimble uses this concept, which sounds as if it describes spoken language, to describe quality writing that respects and engages the reader
What is intelligent conversation?
A shot of a building or landscape, indicating the location of the following scene
What is an establishing shot?
When using a function outline, we organize the paper in order to logically address these
What are the "promises of the thesis"? (Or the claims that need to be supported in order to prove the thesis as a whole)
If you receive feedback that your thesis statement has only two stories, not three, then it may have this problem
What is a failure to address significance / "so what"?
According to the Uneven-U paragraph model, these types of sentences occur in the middle of the paragraph, rather than at the very beginning and end
What are Level 1 sentences / specific evidence?
Titles of academic papers contain these two mandatory elements
What are the source and key terms/concepts?
Barbie. Directed by Greta Gerwig, performances by Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, and America Ferrera, 2023.
The MLA end-of-text citation above has this wrong with it
What is a missing studio/distributor?
"In 2022, nearly 60,000 people worldwide died from melanoma skin cancer."
The above usage of a statistic as the hook for the paper has this problem with it, making it less effective than it could be
What is a lack of context/comparison for the statistic? (Also acceptable: What is being too broad?)
"A determination of reduction in the number of janitorial staff was made by members of the budget committee."
The above sentence has these three problems with it that make it less clear than it could be. (Three problems must be named; you must also provide a better version of the sentence)
What are passive construction, nominalization, and redundancy?
Example improved sentence: "The budget committee decided to reduce the number of janitorial staff."
A type of framing that is at an askew angle, potentially conveying that something happening on screen is wrong, bizarre, or psychologically unstable
What is a canted shot / Dutch angle?