Essays
the first paragraph in a essay
What is an introduction?
You are the most special person in the world. The part of speech that defines the word "special".
What is an adjective?
This letter is always capitalized in the middle of a sentence.
What is "I"?
Putting another person's ideas into you own words.
What is paraphrasing?
The website often recommended for referencing MLA style and essay writing techniques.
What is Purdue Owl?
the part of the introduction that contains the main ideas of the entire essay
What is the thesis statement?
Kenneth sighed wearily as he looked at the pile of homework. The part of speech that defines the word "wearily".
What is an adverb?
Three things that are always capitalized.
What are names, months, cities, days of the week, continents?
These collections of standards govern punctuation, capitalization, and citations.
What are style guides?
The critical step in essay writing after the rough draft and before proofreading.
What is revising?
the last paragraph in a essay
What is a conclusion?
In case you didn't know, I come from a long line of royalty. The part of speech that defines the word "royalty".
What is a noun?
Two sentences joined with only a comma.
What is a comma splice?
The style guide used for our ENG 101A class.
What is MLA?
The person in the video about texting being its own language.
Who is John McWhorter?
Every paragraph should have one of these to guide the reader in understanding what the paragraph is about.
What is a topic sentence?
The best part of my day is when I get to take a nap. The part of speech that defines the word "when".
What is an adverb?
Sentences running together without punctuation.
What is a run-on?
The name of the page at the end of an essay that shows the research sources.
What is the Works Cited page?
The type of poem you wrote as teams, in order to not have class on Halloween.
What is a cinquain?
The writing strategy for an introduction that can be used to go from general ideas to a specific ideas
What is the inverted pyramid?
An abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separately.
What is an initialism?
The task of ensuring verb tenses or noun formations are the same in a sentence.
What is parallelism?
Using people's ideas in your paper without citing them and giving proper credit.
What is plagiarism?
The name of the book written by Anne Lamott that the instructor recommended.
Bird by Bird
The type of essay that uses examples throughout to illustrate the main topic and sub ideas.
What is an exemplification essay?
The conjunctions that make up the acronym FANBOYS.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so?
Words that convey the logical relationship between sentences and within sentences.
What are transitional words?
Two methods for inserting a quotation into an essay.
What are tag, integrate, embed, split?
The three steps of the Peer Review Process.
What are praise, question, and polish?