Brainstorming, Listing, Drawing, & Outlining are all forms of this.
What is Prewriting?
100
This functional sentence type makes a plain statement.
What is declarative?
100
This early theory of argument was born out of legal proceedings and employs four questions: conjecture, definition, quality, & procedure.
What is Stasis Theory?
100
This sentence reflects the purpose and focus of an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
100
This comes before a conjunction in a compound sentence.
What is a comma?
200
These two parts of the writing process happen after something has been drafted.
What are revision and editing?
200
A group of words with a subject and a predicate that cannot stand alone as a sentence.
What is a dependent clause?
200
Aristotle held that a good argument must exhibit these three appeals.
What is Ethos (credibility), Pathos (passion), & Logos (logic)?
200
Best to know who this is before writing an essay.
What is the audience?
200
An academic paper should choose this type of line spacing.
What is double-spaced.
300
The writing process is best represented by this shape.
What is a circle?
300
This grammatical sentence type has one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is complex?
300
This type of logic arrives at a general conclusion based on patterns in specific details or observations.
What is inductive reasoning?
300
An author must choose this correctly before beginning the writing process, for example, lab reports, research papers, cover letters, or term papers.
What is genre?
300
The standard of writing in repeated grammatical or structural forms.
What is parallelism?
400
This is the last stage in the writing process.
What is presentation, publication, or sharing?
400
This piece of punctuation allows two or more independent clauses to be joined without a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
400
Poor reasoning or faulty logic is said to be this.
What is fallacy?
400
The standard of focusing on a main idea.
What is unity?
400
The term used to describe specific word choices.
What is diction?
500
This is the translation of mise en place.
What is everything in its place?
500
This is the part of the sentence where the action or state of being is provided.
What is the predicate?
500
This mid-twentieth century philosopher held that arguments may have the following working parts: claim, grounds, warrant, backing, reservations, & qualifiers.
Who is Stephen Toulmin?
500
Writing that is not argumentative or literary in nature is said to be this.
What is expository?
500
16th century French nobleman Michel De Montaigne invented this genre of writing by coining a term in French that means, "to try or attempt."