Writing Strategies
Readings
Thesis Statement
Hodge Podge
More Hodge Podge II
100
In this prewriting process, you write for a set period of time without stopping to allow your mind to roam freely.
What is Freewriting?
100
In a Modest Proposal, this is what Swift proposed to do to solve the problem of poverty in Irish society.
What is eat the children?
100
This sentence is the main focus of a paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
100
This is a literary work that attacks or pokes fun at vices, abuses, stupidity, and/or any other fault or imperfection.
What is satire?
100
In this prewriting strategy, you develop ideas after brainstorming by organizing them into sections, such as roman numerals I, II, and III with sub areas.
What is outlining?
200
In this writing process, you identify a central idea or ideas from an initial freewrite, circle them, and use these ideas to freewrite more.
What is Looping?
200
This is the writing style Jonathan Swift used in A Modest Proposal.
What is satire?
200
When writing your thesis statement, it is always important to have knowledge of who you intend will be reading your work. This group of people are called the ...
What is audience?
200
Name one thing/quality a paragraph should contain in order to be as effective as possible.
What is -Unity -a Topic Sentence, -Adequate Development?
200
In the RAFTS process, this first part involves determining who you are going to be as the writer.
What is the ROLE?
300
In this part of writing, you write a general subject in a circle and create ideas around it in a web.
What is cluster mapping or brainstorming?
300
Satire uses this type of irony, which are words which say the opposite of what you actually mean.
What is verbal irony?
300
A brief statement in the first paragraph that introduced the major points you will discuss in your essay is called this.
What is the essay map?
300
True or false. A topic sentence can be located anywhere in a paragraph.
What is True?
300
The writing process is not a beginning and ending process, but requires you to continue to redo and improve your work. This type of process is called a---- process.
What is recursive?
400
In this writing strategy, you assign one person to write down the ideas that you say related to the topic.
What is discussing?
400
In The Ultimate Diet of Cults, this is the diet which is supposed to replenish your body and make you healthier.
What is the Breatharian diet?
400
True or False. A good thesis statement can be a fact.
What is false?
400
This paragraph in an essay states the purpose or reason for your writing and catches your reader’s interest.
What is the introductory or opening paragraph?
400
In this part of the deconstruction process of writing, you determine who you are writing for?
What is Audience?
500
In this part of writing, you organize and plan your writing piece. You may brainstorm your ideas, use a web, or other graphic organizers.
What is Prewriting?
500
The leader of the ultimate diet cult was caught doing this, which damaged his reputation.
What is buying food from 7-11 and ordering room service?
500
Name two errors to avoid in creating thesis statements.
What is 1) merely announcing or describing your intentions 2) Using expressions such as "in my opinion" or "I" 3)Making irrational or oversimplified claims 4) Statement of fact or self-evident ideas 5) Stating the thesis in the form of a question
500
This is why Jonathan Swift wrote "A Modest Proposal"
What is to call attention to abuses inflicted on Irish Catholics by well-to-do English Protestants?
500
This is the acronym for the 5 part process in which you deconstruct a writing prompt or assignment.
What is RAFTS?
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