Formal Writing
The argument that the writer intends to prove.
What is a contention?
This impacts the purpose, content, presentation, and approach.
What is the audience?
The ending of a standard paragraph.
What is a concluding sentence?
The subject performs the action.
What is active voice?
An argument without supporting evidence.
What is an unsupported contention?
The writer does this after brainstorming and research.
What is create a planning outline?
The information that forms the content of a paragraph.
What is supporting information?
The final step of the paragraph process.
What is edit, polish, and final draft?
The 2 purposes for academic writing.
What are informative and persuasive?
The supporting information that follows a supporting point.
What are supporting details and elaborations?
These keep the reader moving from one point to the next.
What are transitions?
The 3 requirements of formal writing.
What are proper grammar, correct use of words, and proper form?
Two guidelines for formal writing
What are spelling and punctuation, subject-verb agreement, verb tense consistency, person and number consistency, and active voice?
Three aspects of a planning outline.
What are topic sentence, supporting points noted by numbers, supporting details noted by lowercase letters, elaborations noted by numbers in parentheses, and concluding sentence?
The 3 jobs of a topic sentence.
What are: establishes the exact topics; captures the reader's attention; and, establishes the tone for the paragraph?
The 4 components of a paragraph.
What are topic sentence, supporting information, transitions, and concluding sentence?