Exploring
Developing
Revising and Editing
Classifying and Arguing
Potpourri
100
Your subject; what you are writing about
What is topic?
100
The main idea that you want to express in your essay
What is a thesis?
100
Modifying your writing to make it stronger and more convincing
What is revising?
100
Dividing a large group into smaller and more understandable categories
What is classification?
100
A group of words that says a complete thought
What is a sentence?
200
Your intended reader
What is audience?
200
Organizing supporting ideas in the order they occurred, or chronologically
What is time order?
200
Editing
What is proofreading your final draft for errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation and mechanics?
200
Taking a position on an issue and trying to prove or defend your position
What is argument?
200
This type of sentence does not express a complete thought.
What is incomplete?
300
The three purposes for writing
What is to persuade, to inform and to entertain?
300
Organizing supporting ideas by describing them in a specific space
What is space order?
300
Unity
What is the ideas in an essay clearly support the focus of the essay?
300
Classification principle
What is the overall method that you use to sort the subject into categories?
300
What this sentence is missing: "Visited Costa Rica during vacation."
What is a subject?
400
Writing without stopping for a set period of time
What is freewriting?
400
Organizing supporting ideas in a logical sequence, such as least important to most important or from general to specific.
What is emphatic order?
400
Circular reasoning
What is a paragraph restates its main oint in various ways but does not provide supporting details?
400
A paper about the three types of drivers in Jacksonville would be this type of essay
What is classification?
400
Repair the incomplete sentence: "After school on Friday".
What is "answer will vary"?
500
The four exploring strategies
What are freewriting, brainstorming, questioning and clustering?
500
Three common lead-ins for an introduction in an essay
What are a quotation, asurprising or provocative statment, or a question?
500
Correct the following parallelism error: I like swimming, reading and to fish.
What is "I like swimming, reading and fishing."?
500
The three especially useful types of supporting ideas for an argumentative essay
What are 1) quote informed sources; 2) consider logical consequences; and 3) acknowledge opposing viewpoints?
500
Hemingway said every good writer needs this essential tool
What is a good, built-in b.s. detector?
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