The Art & Craft of Writing 110

Fix It

100

Saw the shooting star fall in the sky.

Fragment: The little girls saw the shooting star fall from the sky.

200

According to Murray writing is a process.

Missing comma: According to Murray, writing is a process.

300

Underage drinking leads to fatal accidents, the drinking age should be reconsidered.

What is a Comma Splice: Underage drinking leads to fatal accidents. Therefore, the drinking age should be reconsidered.

400

The harmful secrets within the cosmetic industry shows you why animal testing is really wrong. 

Casual language/using "you" pronouns

500

A college education provides more than just a career path it also offers students new perspectives and shapes their personal growth by going in depth into a variety of subjects.

Run on: Adjust sentence structure.

Riddle Me This

100

I'm diced, I'm sliced.

I'm not very nice

to look at or read,

it's here in this feed.

Comma Splice

200

I hype you up

I show you off

In phrases like this:

"According to Goff,"

Ethos

300

I'm a thinker, a puzzler--

I combined the Big Three.

First Socrates, then Plato,

And then you'll find me.

Aristotle

400

I don't mean "to shout"

I don't mean "to fight"

Instead I am Latin for

"show or make light"

Argument (Latin: arguere)

500

I am the backbone,

The roadmap, and key

Of papers and speeches;

My parts come in three. 

A sentence or two at the end of the intro

Shows readers alike just where they'll go.

Thesis Statement

History

100

During the 300s BC, this philosopher was the teacher of Alexander the Great. He also created the Triangle of Persuasion.

Aristotle

200

What country/countries did Rhetoric (the art of communication/writing/speaking) develop? 

Greek and/or Rome

300

The purposes, backgrounds of authors, audiences, tones, and contexts of speeches like Winston Churchill's "Victory at All Costs" and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "We Will Not Wait" and "I Have a Dream" are examples of what?

Rhetorical Elements

400

Before printing presses, how did societies and cultures preserve their histories and stories?

Oral Tradition

500

What are three outcomes of the printing press?

English as the lingua franca

Literacy rates shot up

Production of books

Spreading of news and stories

Preserving cultures languages and stories

Desire to read rose/new entertainment

It's All Relative

100

What does the word Logos mean and how is it used in writing?

"Word" or logic; used to establish facts and reasoning behind a position.

200

What form of communication aims to persuade a specific audience?

Argument

300

Name three literary elements and their functions

Allusion, Allegory, Anaphora, Alliteration, Euphemism, Irony, Symbolism, Simile, Metaphor, Malapropism, Theme, Tone, etc.

400

What is the structure of a basic paragraph?

Topic sentence, evidence, then analysis. 

500

What does "Pathos" mean?

"to suffer" or "to feel"

ID Please

100

When grocery prices rise, it becomes difficult for average Americans to maintain their spending habits.

Complex

200

Learning to write well takes time, and it is a skill many have forgotten.

Compound

300

We should seek to learn more about the past, because if we ignore history, we are doomed to repeat it.

Compound complex

400

"I am the way, the truth, and the life."

Simple sentence; oxford comma.

500

There are two types of phrases that can be used in a sentence. What are the two types?

Independent (SVO) and Dependent.