Parts of an Essay
Explanatory vs. Argumentative
Conventions
Reading the Prompt
Miscellaneous
100
The last sentence in your introductory paragraph
What is a thesis statement?
100
This type of essay explains ideas
What is an explanatory/informative essay?
100
This is at the beginning of every sentence
What is a capital letter?
100
This is who would be your readers
What is the audience?
100
The highest that you can score on the FSA writing
What is 10?
200
This sentence catches your attention and is first
What is a hook?
200
This type of writing defends an idea
What is an argumentative essay?
200
You do this at the beginning of every paragraph
What is indent?
200
The prompt helps you to determine?
What is the topic?
200
What you read before anything else
What is the prompt?
300
These paragraphs should include your point (topic sentence), evidence, and elaboration, and a link.
What is a body paragraph?
300
In an argumentative essay, this is the idea you are defending
What is the claim?
300
This separates your ideas into chunks that make sense or gives you a pause as your reading. 
What is end punctuation? . , ?
300
The prompt allows you to identify which of these two writing formats needs to be used
What is argumentative or explanatory/informative?
300
[DOUBLE JEOPARDY] Double Points for Answering Correctly The three sections scored on the FSA writing.
organized/evidence/used memes
400
This information comes from the text and includes "According to the text..." or "The author stated..."
What is evidence?
400
Acknowledging the ideas of your opponents and arguing against it
What is a counterclaim
400
This should be used when citing an article
What is quotation marks?
400
You must use these to get your information for your essay
What is resources (articles, texts)?
400
Do this while you are reading
What is annotate the text, or look for evidence that will support the topic and task?
500
This wraps up your essay and connects back to the thesis (Minimum of 1 sentence)
What is the meme
500
This type of essay may have you define, describe or compare
What is an explanatory/informative essay?
500
This is used to give credit to the source
What is citation?
500
Completing this step will help you to keep your essay focused and organized
Attacking or breaking down the prompt, or planning
500
This strategy will help you have a focused and organized essay. 
What is planning?
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