SIX TRAITS
MUGS
The History of English
WRITING
VOCABULARY
100
This trait focuses on the correction of MUGS errors. Writers must take care to follow the standards during the final stages of drafting.
What is CONVENTIONS?
100
This is the meaning of the acronym MUGS.
What is Mechanics, Usage, Grammar, and Style?
100
English is found on this branch of the language tree.
What is Germanic?
100
This type of writing creates vivid imagery for the reader.
What is DESCRIPTION?
100
This word means "not genuine, not true, not valid."
What is the definition of SPURIOUS?
200
This trait focuses on how writers plan to present their ideas using a manner that will be easy for readers to follow. A five paragraph essay is one example of this trait. Chronological, spatial, and order of importance are other examples of this trait.
What is ORGANIZATION?
200
This word in the following sentence is an example of incorrect USAGE: The prom gown was to long causing the young girl to trip down the stairs.
What is "to." The correct usage is "too."
200
This language greatly influence the development of English from Old to Middle.
What is French?
200
These are the five steps of the WRITING PROCESS.
What are BRAINSTORMING, DRAFTING, REVISING, EDITING/PROOFREADING, and PUBLISHING?
200
This word means "having a closed mind, inflexible".
What is the definition of OBSTINATE?
300
This trait focuses on the "building blocks" of a piece of writing-the writer's words. The stronger these "blocks" are, the better the piece of writing will be. Writers check for precision, specificity, and richness with this trait.
What is WORD CHOICE?
300
The following sentence requires these punctuation changes: "No homework for tonight", Ms. Vecchio announced, since you are all such brilliant students."
What is: a comma before the quotation marks (...tonight,") and quotation marks before the second half of the quote ("since...)?
300
In this year and with this event standardized the English language and allowed more people to read.
What is the invention of the printing press in 1476?
300
These are revision strategies which will help to improve WORD CHOICE (describe two).
What are ELIMINATING REPEATED WORDS, USING RICH VOCABULARY, and AVOIDING FORBIDDEN WORDS?
300
This word means "to reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly".
What is the definition of PROLIFERATE?
400
This trait focuses on the starting point for good writing. A writer must know his/her topic and focus on a subject that will be of interest to the reader.
What is IDEAS?
400
When a writer joins two independent clauses with a comma, this error occurs.
What is a COMMA SPLICE?
400
This mysterious people spread their language across Europe causing it to become the source of over 130 modern language.
Who are the Indo-Euorpeans?
400
This, according to Ms. V., is the most important step in the writing process. This is its definition.
What is REVISION? What is the process of looking again at one's writing to make changes/improvements?
400
This word means "a deliberately deceptive movement".
What is the definition of FEINT (noun)?
500
This trait focuses on the rhythm of a piece of writing. Writer's check that each sentence has completeness, variety, and appropriate transitions so that the writing flows.
What is SENTENCE FLUENCY?
500
This sentence problem is missing either a subject, predicate, or both.
What is a FRAGMENT?
500
These tribes crossed the North Sea bringing their Germanic language into the British Isles.
Who are the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
500
These revisions are necessary for the following "bare-bones" sentence to be a vivid word picture. It went into the water.
What is: (answers will vary, but must be specific and sensory).
500
This word means "famous, outstanding, distinguished".
What is the definition of EMINENT?
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