Parts of the Essay
Writing Myths & Rituals
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Observation & Descriptive Writing
Wild Card
100
This part of the essay contains detailed support for your thesis.
What are body paragraphs?
100
A repeated pattern of behavior.
What is a ritual?
100
Name the error in this sentence and correct it: "Sally doesn't play cards like she use to."
What is misspelling? "Sally doesn't play cards like she used to."
100
The five senses descriptive writing appeals to...
What are sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing?
100
This type of establishment was observed in the essay "Permanent Tracings."
What is a tattoo parlor?
200
This shape helps you remember the structure of the Three-part-essay...
What is a key-hole
200
Usually private, this type of personal writing may contain a writer's ideas, plans, important events, or simply day-to-day thoughts.
What is a journal?
200
Name the error and fix this sentence, "We went to the store to find a gift for Jacqueline's baby and couldn't decide what to buy they had way too much to choose from."
What is a run-on sentence? "We went to the store to find a gift for Jacqueline's baby, but couldn't decide what to buy. The boutique had way to much to choose from."
200
The purpose of descriptive writing.
What is to describe something in an original and unique way so that it appeals to the five senses
200
The three corners of the rhetorical triangle.
What are writer, audience, and subject?
300
This part of the essay moves from specific to general.
What is the conclusion
300
Someone who writes.
What is a writer?
300
Name the error & correct this sentence: "With the ultimate effect of all advertising is to sell the product."
What is a sentence fragment? "The ultimate effect of all advertising is to sell the product."
300
A simple way to sequence and organize your descriptive details. For example: left to right, right to left, bottom to top...
What is spatial order?
300
This type of criticism is offered to writers by their reviewers and is intended to benefit the writer and their writing.
What is Constructive Criticism?
400
This part of the essay sets the tone for your paper and contains your thesis statement.
What is the Introduction
400
A "condition" in which a writer feels he/she is stuck and has nothing to say or write.
What is writer's block?
400
Name the error and correct this sentence, "The flowers aroma filled the room."
What is a missing apostrophe? "The flower's aroma filled the room."
400
A phrase or expression that has been used so often that it is no longer original or interesting. A.K.A, "the description killer"
What is a cliche?
400
The overall context in which your writing occurs.
What is the rhetorical situation?
500
Most well-developed expository essays contain at least this number of paragraphs?
What is 5?
500
"Start anywhere, quickly." & "Write the easiest parts first." These are tips to help the writer at which stage in the process?
What is the beginning? or getting started?
500
The essential ingredient in a complex sentence. Examples include, "since," "although", "once", and "if."
What is a subordinate conjunction?
500
This shaping technique striking explores striking similarities or differences between two parts or between various aspects of your subject.
What is comparison/contrast?
500
The 4 dimensions of the writing process.
What are collecting, shaping, drafting, and revising?
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