The type of essay where you take one side of a controversy and defend it.
What is a Position Essay?
100
The abbreviation for the word Mister.
What is Mr.?
100
The sentences that come after your topic sentence in the same paragraph are called...
What are details?
100
The words located at the top of every page in a dictionary.
What are guide words?
100
Diaries, journal, and letters are examples of this type of research source.
What is a primary source?
200
The part of the essay that provides support to your topic.
What is the middle paragraphs or body?
200
The phrase "Awesome, wasn't it?" is an example of this type of sentence.
What is a fragment sentence?
200
This type of sentence states your opinion or position when writing a persuasive essay.
What is a topic sentence?
200
These marks shows the syllables of word in a dictionary.
What are accent marks?
200
This type of website should be avoided when doing research.
What is a WIKI page?
300
When you believe your side of a controversy or issue.
What is an opinion or position?
300
Words like "cause, thanks, cool, and gonna" and not to be used in academic writing are called...
What is slang?
300
A statement that is a broad, general view of the topic, and should be a commonly held belief or fact.
What is a focus statement?
300
A listing of synonyms for the word horse such as charger, cob, colt, filly, or gelding are found using a _______.
What is a thesaurus?
300
When you use another author's words, books, or surveys in your writing you must include this type resource page at the end of your paper.
What is a Works Cited page?
400
This involves examining 2 sides of a question or issue.
What is a debate?
400
Words such as "first of all, secondly, in addition, and most importantly" are example of ...
What are transition words?
400
This statement is your opinion about the topic and typically includes the 3 part outline of your paper. Found in the beginning and end of an essay.
What is the thesis statement?
400
This resource would be best for finding an antonym for a specific word.
What is a thesaurus?
400
True or False: When using the internet, if you find an article, and there is no date, author's name, or how to contact the author it's okay to use that article to do research.
What is FALSE?
500
The type of voice used when writing a business letter.
What is a formal voice?
500
Types of words like "some, few, most, and often" make your writing more persuasive and are called... (p. 247)
What are qualifiers?
500
This part of an essay should be no more than 8 words and should be capitalized throughout except the words a, an, the, and, but, or for.
What is the title?
500
This history of a word is called __________.
What is etymology?
500
The 3 best forms of website to use for research.
What are .edu(educational), .org(nonprofit), and .gov(government)?