It's All Grammar to Me
I love grammar we have a one-way relationship.
What is a fused sentence?
Language like this helps a reader image what a writer is seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling.
What is sensory imagery?
"To be or not to be, that is the question."
Who is William Shakespeare
This stage includes strategies such as brainstorming, listing , freewriting.
What is prewriting/invention?
The Jaguars are the best team in the NFL, they will take us to the Super Bowl!
What is a Comma Splice
This type of language describes one thing by comparing it to something else. For example, "He was the son that shone in her morning sky."
What is figurative language?
"In accomplishing this, I was compelled to resort to several stratagems. I had no regular teacher."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This stage includes clarifying the purpose and audience for a piece. Think of how we use a miscroscope.
What is focusing?
These words join two independent clauses equally. An example is "but."
What are coordinating conjunctions?
This descriptive strategy allows writers to be as precise as possible--"broken chunks of brown bread" rather than "food."
What are specific details?
"You remember one thing, and that suddenly reminds you of another thing."
Who is EB White?
At this stage we plan the structure for the piece--will we describe, explain, or compare and contrast? How will we order our thoughts on the topic?
What is organizing?
"Because", "although", and "since" are types of this structure that weakens independent clauses.
What are subordinating conjunctions?
This term refers to the main idea of the description.
What is central/dominant impression?
“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
Who is EB White?
At this stage we are finally writing down our thoughts in an organized way. It feel good to put thoughts to paper!
What is drafting?
This sentence error may have a subject and verb, but it lacks a complete thought.
What is a fragment?
This term refers to the singular way a writer choses words and arranges sentences and paragraphs in a piece.
What is style?
"Sometimes I hear the cicadas singing, forming a euphoric and harmonious chorus. It is hard not to fall asleep listening to the sound of nature."
Who is Lian Lui? (student model paragraph)
It's time to proofread for errors as well as reorganize parts of the piece if needed. Did we use the right word in paragraph two? What about the order of ideas in paragraph six?
What is editing?