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100

The course textbook used for ENG 0900 AND ENG 1111 is...

What is the Norton Field Guide to Writing?

100

This is the part of an assignment that includes the student's name, the instructor's name, the course name and number, and the due date of the assignment.

What is a College Header?

100

It is a series of sentences that are about one topic.

What is a paragraph?

100

This kind of essay is a written portrait of people, places, events, or other things.

What is a Profile?

100

Expresses and explains your response to a reading assignment, a provocative quote, or a specific issue; may be very brief (sometimes a page or less) or more in-depth.

What is a Personal Response Essay?

200

Each Unit Folder in our Blackboard class has a Two Week Calendar for assignments called this.

What is the Unit Due Dates?

200

This occurs when two or more independent clauses are not joined correctly.

What is a run-on sentence?

200

This, along with supporting ideas and a clincher, make up a paragraph.

What is a topic sentence?

200

This part of your essay needs to grab the attention of the reader, making them want to read more about your topic?

What is the introduction paragraph?

200

Presents a problem, explains its causes, and proposes and explains a solution.

What is a Problem-Solution Essay?

300

A test taken during the first unit in the course that is used by your instructor to gauge your writing knowledge is called this.

What is the Writing Diagnostic?

300

These can create powerful links between ideas in your paper and can help your reader understand the logic of your paper.

What are Transitional Words and Phrases?

300

The topic sentence expresses this.

What is the main idea?

300

This part of the essay includes details, facts, and evidence, which all tie back to the thesis statement of the essay.

What are the body paragraphs?

300

States a thesis about a particular text (or texts) and develops the thesis with evidence from the work and sometimes from additional sources; this tends to be one of the hardest essays for students to write.

What is an Analysis Essay?

400

The Homepage, Announcements, My Grades, Course Messages, and InQuizitive are all items found here.

What is the Course Menu?

400

This sentence can create powerful links between ideas in your paper and can help your reader understand the logic of your paper.

What is a Topic Sentence?

400

Supporting ideas give your writing this.

What is flavor?

400

All essays have a three part structure composed of these.

What is the introduction, body, and conclusion?

400

Investigates a particular person, group, or event in depth for the purpose of drawing a larger conclusion from the analysis.

What is a Case Study or Case Analysis?

500

The course Homepage has links for the Course Syllabus, Course Announcements, Thesaurus, and this item.

What is a Dictionary?

500

The refers to a particular style of expression, containing characteristics such as a formal tone, use of third-person perspective over first person perspective, a clear focus on the issue or topic rather than the opinion of the author, and precise word choice.

What is Academic Writing?

500

This summarizes the main ideas or feelings in a paragraph and lets the reader know when the paragraph is done.

What is the clincher?

500

This is the part of your introduction that establishes the purpose or argument of your essay.

What is the Thesis Statement?

500

Presents a thesis and supports it with original research and/or other researchers’ findings on the topic; can take several different formats depending on the subject area. This kind of essay tends to be the final essay in ENG 1111 and 1112.

What is a Research Essay?

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