This trait of writing focuses on language use that is rich and varied.
What is WORD CHOICE?
100
These are the parts of a long composition (essay).
What is the INTRODUCTION, BODY, and CONCLUSION.
200
This expresses an action or state of being.
What is a VERB?
200
This punctuation separates two sentences that express closely related ideas.
What is a SEMI-COLON?
200
This is the ORGANIZATION for a Funnel Introduction in an essay.
What is GENERAL/BROAD to SPECIFIC?
200
This is the sentence that states the purpose of the essay, the essay's main argument.
What is the THESIS?
300
This names a specific person, place, or thing.
What is a PROPER NOUN?
300
This is the verb phrase in the following sentence:
Ninth grade students have been studying diligently for their mid-year exams.
What is "have been studying"?
300
This is the definition of a sentence fragment.
What is an incomplete sentence? What is a piece of a sentence?
300
This is the meaning of REVISION, and these are two strategies a writer should use to revise a draft.
What is "rereading to make improvements"?
What is - 1) eliminating vague words with specific words
2) rereading for complete sentences
3) checking for mechanics
(spelling, punctuation, capitalization)
400
This connects the subject to a noun or adjective in the predicate.
What is a LINKING VERB?
400
In the following sentence, this is the predicate adjective :
The hot-pepper sausage tasted spicy.
What is "spicy"?
400
Name and then fix the problem in the following sentence:
Most students eagerly await the "no school" announcement on snowy days few students want to extend the school year.
What is a run-on sentence (fused).
Put a period after "days" and capitalize "few."
Use a conjunction: "...but few students..."
400
This is what good writers should do constantly as they compose during the drafting and revising process.
What is READ and REREAD their writing.
500
These are eight auxiliary verbs.
What are MAY, MIGHT, MUST, COULD, SHOULD, WOULD, CAN, WILL, SHALL, BE, HAVE, DO?
500
In the following sentence, this word is a usage error:
During the storm, the neighborhood lost it's electricity.
This is the correction.
What is "it's"? It should be "its"-a possessive pronoun.
500
These are five of the Six Traits of Effective Writing.
What is IDEAS, ORGANIZATION, WORD CHOICE, SENTENCE FLUENCY, VOICE, and CONVENTIONS?
500
This is how a writer structures the CONCLUSION of an essay. This is what the "So What?" means.
What is -- starting with a restatement of the thesis and broadening to general ideas (triangle).These general statements connect the thesis to the reader's experiences or an important idea about life.