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This is the main idea of an essay.
What is the thesis statement?
This type of hook uses a general statement about the subject to introduce the writer's argument.
What is a Generalization?
Every single body paragraph must have these three components.
What are the topic sentence, supporting details, and a transition/concluding sentence?
This type of hook uses a specific type of information to teach the reader something he or she may find interesting or unexpected.
What is a Surprising Fact?
Items in the heading are found in this order.
What is student's name, professor's name, class, and due date?
The words I, me, my, our, us, and we are examples of what type of pronouns?
What are first person pronouns?
This is where the topic sentence should be found in a paragraph.
What is the first sentence?
These are the number of steps in the Writing Process.
What is 4?
The thesis statement appears in this part of the essay.
What is the introduction or introductory paragraph?
The words you, your, and yours are examples of which types of pronouns?
What are second person pronouns?
Which of the following is NOT a good hook to use in an essay?
A. Startling claim/Interesting fact
B. Anecdote
C. Dictionary definition
D. Quotation
E. Rhetorical question
What is C, Dictionary definition?
This type of hook uses a short story to illustrate a point.
What is an anecdote?
A ______ is when two words are combined to make a single word, and using them makes one's writing less formal.
What is a contraction?
These type of hooks may come from an outside source to help the writer's credibility.
What are quotations?
At minimum, all thesis statements should include what two pieces of information?
What are the topic and the opinion of the writer?
Doing this ensures an essay is not boring for the reader (Hint: Jane ran home. She was hungry. She ate food.)
What is varying sentence types?
This person is the author of the book Relish.
Who is Lucy Knisley?
It is important for writers to use evidence to support the supporting points in their essays. In addition to Logical and Emotional, what is the third type of evidence?
What is ethical evidence?
What the Relish's genre?
What is an autobiography?
The following are all examples of what?
Brainstorming/listing
Free writing
Cluster Mapping
Outlining
What are pre-writing strategies?
What are the 4 steps in the Writing Process?
What are Pre-Writing, Drafting, Revising, Editing/Proof-Reading?
When contrasting two topics/objects, what are you analyzing?
What are the differences between the topics/objects?
When comparing two topics/objects, what are you analyzing?
The similarities between the two topics/objects.
Drawing a Venn Diagram is an example of using which type of pre-writing strategy?
Clustering/Mapping.
Describe your preferred pre-writing strategy.
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