Four Areas of Writing
Invention Strategies
The Writing Process
Rhetorical Situation
APA Format
100
These are the four areas of writing in our lives.
What are student, professional, citizen, and family/member friend?
100
In this prewriting strategy, the writer lists a bunch of topics or ideas for a writing task.
What is listing/brainstorming?
100
True or False: Writing is a recursive process.
What is true?
100
This is who a piece of writing is directed to or who the author intends to reach.
What is the audience?
100
True or False: Block quotes do not require special formatting.
What is false?
200
In this area of writing, you write to learn and explore.
What is as a student?
200
In this prewriting strategy, a writer asks who, what, when, where, how, and why questions about the topic.
What is questioning?
200
This stage of the writing process allows a writer to develop ideas for the writing assignment.
What is the invention or prewriting stage?
200
This is the reason that a writer is writing.
What is the purpose?
200
True or False: You do not need an in-text citation for a source as long as the source is listed on the reference page.
What is false?
300
In this area of writing, you write to participate in government.
What is as a citizen?
300
In this prewriting strategy, a writer sets a time limit and writes down anything and everything that comes to mind about a topic (usually in paragraph form).
What is freewriting?
300
This is the process of correcting spelling and grammar mistakes.
What is editing?
300
This is the writer's personality, attitude, and style.
What is voice/tone?
300
This is when you take someone's ideas and you put them into your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
400
In this area of writing, you write to demonstrate what you have learned.
What is as a student?
400
This prewriting strategy is often called mapping or webbing and is very visual in nature.
What is clustering?
400
This is the process of changing sentence structure, increasing coherence, adding transitions, and enhancing language.
What is revision?
400
This is how a piece of writing is delivered (i.e. electronic).
What is the medium?
400
This is when you take someone else's words or ideas without giving proper credit.
What is plagiarism?
500
In this area of writing, you write to carry out daily tasks or to fulfill a need.
What is as a family member or friend?
500
In this prewriting strategy, a writer would include information or notes on one side of the page and questions, observations, definitions, or comments on the other side of the page.
What is a notebook or journal?
500
This is the process of taking information from several different sources and making it all fit into a paper in a unified and coherent fashion.
What is synthesizing?
500
This is the term for the type of writing.
What is the genre?
500
These are the three ways to integrate outside research or someone else's ideas into your paper.
What are quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing?
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