Writing Process
What is prewriting?
The stage where you think about what you are going to wrote about
What is a sentence fragment?
A sentence that does not express a complete thought.
The four types of sentences are
What is imperative, declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory.
What is the Topic Sentence do?
It states the main idea.
What is Sandra’s favorite color
Blue
What is publishing and presenting?
Making a final error-free copy of your papers.
If you run together two or more complete sentences as if were to single sentence you created a
What is a run on sentence.
Vary the length of your sentences to create a lively writing style with what
What is sentence variety.
What is transitional words and phrases?
Helps make writing easy to follow
What is St. Francis Xavier Catholic School anniversary year?
79 years
Why should you make a checklist?
So you can keep track when you are editing and proofreading.
Two or more words, phrases, or clauses are written in the same grammatical from is
What is parallel structure or parallelism
Use this to make your writing sound natural and interesting is what
What is variety of sentence beginnings
What is a thesis statement?
A sentence in the introduction that introduces each body paragraph.
What movie was this quote said, “The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of them all.” Hint: Disney Princess
Mulan
When you need help editing who do you ask?
A teacher or a friend.
A sentence that has only one independent clause
What is a simple sentence
What is a clause?
Is a group of words with a subject and a verb.
What is order of importance?
Arramges detail or reasons from the least important ones to the most important ones- or the reverse.
Answer the riddle: What is always coming, but never arrives
Tomorrow
What is the difference bewteeen revising and editing
revising is when you evaluate your draft and editing is where you check for spelling and punctuation errors.
When you write a letter for a job you use what kind of language
You use formal language
What is a compound subjects and compound verbs?
Smooth out a sentence and avoid repetition.
What is a strong thesis?
a strong thesis is when you have two or more topics for each body paragraph.
Answer the riddle: If it takes eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men?
No time, because the wall is already built