Prewriting
The Basics
Just Do It
Write It
The Beginning and the End
100
The first stage of the writing process.
What is Prewriting?
100
The basic building block of any essay.
What is a paragraph?
100
Organizing and Drafting
What is the second step of the writing process (according to your author)?
100
unity, coherence, support, organization
What should you revise for?
100
...grabs the reader's attention, gives background information, and states the thesis...
What is the introduction?
200
Jotting down any ideas that come to mind in a list...
What is brainstorming?
200
...focuses on only one idea but is developed with several supporting points.
What is a paragraph?
200
a method of organizing ideas for a paper
What is an outline?
200
when a paper develops only ONE central idea--no irrelevant sentences...
What is unity?
200
...states the main idea of an essay...
What is a thesis?
300
...writing down whatever comes to mind in the form of connected sentences without stopping and without worrying about punctuation....
What is freewriting?
300
the person(s) who will read your writing
What is audience?
300
The part of the writing process in which a writer organizes information and ideas into sentences and paragraphs.
What is drafting?
300
Details flow together in a logical order...
What is coherence?
300
...REMINDS the readers of the main point of the essay and makes final comments...
What is the conclusion?
400

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400
to inform, to entertain, to explain, to persuade
What are purposes of writing?
400
...making changes in the structure of an essay, the order of the sentences, and the content...
What is revising?
400
examples, reasons, procedures, research
What are types of supporting details?
400

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500
...keeping a notebook of your personal writing, recording personal experiences, reactions, and observations...
What is journaling?
500
...is usually found at the beginning of a paragraph and indicates the main idea of that paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
500
...making changes in the choice of words, selection of details, punctuation, and grammar...
What is editing?
500
...words phrases that help the writer follow the direction of your writing, like signposts in the road...
What are transitions/transitional expressions?
500
make a recommendation here...
What is a method of writing a conclusion?
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