Essay Components
This attention-grabbing device appears at the beginning of an introduction
A statistic appearing in an essay would be this rhetorical strategy
What is logos?
In the sentence, "the man threw the ball to the dog," "man" functions as this part of speech
What is a subject?
A complete sentence has at least one of this type of clause
What is an independent clause?
This sentence makes a mini claim at the start of a body paragraph
What is a topic sentence?
A source should be checked for this quality to ensure that no new, conflicting research has been produced
What is currency?
In the sentence, "The plane flew through the clouds," "through the clouds" functions as this part of speech
What is a prepositional phrase?
A compound sentence may connect two independent clauses with a semicolon or a comma and this part of speech
What is a coordinating conjunction?
This key sentence should be argumentative, supportable, and specific
What is a thesis?
Evidence may be integrated into essays as a direct quote, a summary, or this method
What is paraphrasing?
In the sentence, "the man threw the ball to the dog," "the ball" functions as this part of speech
What is a direct object?
A dependent clause and independent clause may combine into a complex sentence using this technique, which allows for one clause to be emphasized over the other
What is subordination?
This type of paragraph provides a rebuttal to the essay's argument
What is a counterargument?
What is a comma or colon?
In the sentence, "Walking towards the door, the man turned to face her," "walking towards the door" functions as this part of speech
What is a participial phrase?
The fragment "A time of wonder and amazement" can be corrected into a complete sentence by adding these parts of speech
What are a subject and verb?
This paragraph considers the bigger picture and answers the question "so what?"
What is a conclusion?
An MLA in-text parenthetical citation includes these pieces of information
What are the author's last name and page number?
In the sentence, "the man walked toward the car carrying a briefcase," "carrying a briefcase" becomes this sort of grammar error
What is a misplaced modifier?
The sentence "It was raining, I walked the dog anyway" commits this type of grammatical error
What is a comma splice?