Academic Writing
This is the number of steps in the process
Five?
(Think, Choose the Best, Outline, Write Right, Submit or next Draft)
How to address the teacher
Mr. Lowe or Professor Lowe
Not by first name
The meaning of "fanboys"
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
simple coordination
The reason Jeniffer Kim went to the mall restroom
Jeniffer was ashamed to be seen with her mother
This was the main reason students had for taking this English 101 class.
to get credit for a degree
These are the two parts of the Topic Sentence
Key idea and Focus?
The location of the instructor's office
Salish 120-54
Missing punctuation in the sentence
You must pay tuition otherwise you cannot attend class.
semicolon and comma before and after "otherwise"
The city location of the story by Lynda Barry when she was seven years old.
Seattle
Italics are used for these kinds of titles.
"stand-alone texts" like books, magazines, newspapers, movies, music CDs, Websites, etc.
These are the two parts of the explanation of the examples/evidence.
Meaning and Significance
The number of writing "caveats" (warnings)
Five
This means that the items in a list have a similar content and form.
Parallelism
Two authors who wrote about kinds of "salvation."
Anna Quindlen and Langston Hughes
This is the number of pages expected in the Position Paper
4-8, not counting the source list
These are two ways to deliver valuable benefit to the readers
AEI (Draw a conclusion)
Consequences (forecast, predict, warn)
Actions (Stop, Start, Solve, etc.)
#3 - the use of "there [be]"
It is the main clause in the sentence:
Because Gloria skipped class, she failed when she took the final test.
"she failed"
The reason George Orwell killed an elephant.
Social pressure
When a sentence ends with a quotation mark, this is the punctuation difference between American English and British English in a sentence like:
In Europe, soccer is called "football"
American puts the period before the quotation mark
In Europe, soccer is called "football."
but British puts the period after the quotation mark,
In Europe, soccer is called "football".
Two things not to do in the conclusion
Ask questions (provide answers instead)
Use new examples/evidence (refer to prior ones)
Use a new quotation (refer to prior ones)
Use RRR only
Use 2nd Person voice ("you")
The result is a loss of 5% "right off the top"
A paper without a title
All the kinds of adverb clauses in the sentence:
Wherever my cat is, it always runs to me when I use the can opener, although I am not opening cat food.
location: Wherever my cat is
time: when I use the can opener in the kitchen
contrast: although I am not opening cat food
These two people helped the seven-year-old Lynda Barry when she became a "disposable child."
the janitor and the teacher
The example of the "Budweiser Daredevil" commercial stressed this social behavior.
Males are not expected to have direct eye contact for very long during conversations