If you are writing an essay with three main ideas, you should have this many paragraphs in the completed essay.
What is five?
100
In Salvation, Hughes spoke of a time in his life when something changed his entire view on the world. How old was he?
What is twelve?
100
In this type of writing, you create an argument for a point or idea you are supporting.
What is persuasive?
100
This is the person whom Amy Tan defended in many of her short works.
Who is her mother?
100
These writing techniques are used when you are just beginning to develop writing ideas. They can help you come up with ideas.
What are prewriting strategies?
200
In an MLA formatted essay, your pages should have this specific size font, and this specific margin areas.
What is 12 point font and one inch margins?
200
In How to Tame a Wild Tongue, Anzaldua first mentions an experience she had with one of her service providers. What was the profession of the person she was seeing who spoke about her tongue?
What is a dentist?
200
This is a literary manner that blends a critical attitude with humor and wit for the purpose of improving human institutions or humanity.
What is satire?
200
Sherman Alexie developed his love of reading from watching this person.
Who is his father?
200
In this writing strategy, you write anything that comes to mind for up to 15 minutes.
What is freewriting?
300
Appears in the top right corner of every page of a paper except the first; includes student's last name and page number.
What is header (or heading, or name information)?
300
Maya Angelou had an issue with what person at her graduation?
What is the speaker?
300
This is a contrast between what appears to be and what really is.
What is irony?
300
This writer strongly believes that we should give excess money we don't absolutely need to help the poor and suffering.
Who is Peter Singer?
300
In this writing strategy, you develop a picture of your ideas and link them together.
What is brainstorm map or cluster map?
400
This is a list of all the sources you use in your essays and papers. It appears as the last page of a research paper.
What is works cited page?
400
Nicholas Carr has an issue with Google and other Internet providers. What is the nickname of Google's headquarters?
What is Googleplex?
400
Name one of the three types of appeals which can be used to strengthen an argument.
What are logical, emotional, or ethical?
400
The reservation and/or tribe which Sherman Alexie belongs to.
What is the Spokane Indian reservation?
400
This is the writing technique where you repeat phrases to make a point.
What is anaphora?
500
In writing an essay, it is always important to remember who you are directing your ideas to. This group of people are known as...
What is your audience?
500
Ericsson doesn't have an issue with this type of lying; in fact, she likes this one the best (so does Oscar Wilde - he says this type of lying is "beyond reproach".
What is out and out lying?
500
In this type of writing, you group parts into categories and write about them.
What is classification?
500
This Italian immigrant grew up "wanting to be normal".
Who is Mike Rose?
500
This writing strategy involves writing a paragraph and then going back and taking a phrase or sentence and writing another paragraph from it.