The Writing Process
The Basic Essay
Using Sources Appropriately
Revising for improvement
Patterns of Writing
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This is the perspective from which an essay is told.
What is point of view?
100
A thesis statement is not required in this type of essay.
What is Narrative?
100
This is the best way to develop a strong research paper.
What is thorough, useful research?
100
This carries more weight than any other word in a sentence.
What are verbs?
100
A sequence of steps to accomplish a task or to achieve a specific result.
What is Process Analysis?
200
Mapping and clustering follow this
What are after freewriting and brainstorming?
200
The number of kinds of thesis statements that are generally used in essay writing.
What is three?
200
Taking ideas from a conversation with a colleague, copying and pasting an article from the internet and not citing sources for an essay.
What is plagiarism?
200
A range of sentence length, functiuon and structure.
What is sentence variety?
200
This pattern of writing is often told in the first person.
What is Narrative?
300
This invention strategy generates immediate ideas and allows a writer to bypass the frustration of simply staring at a blank page.
What is freewriting?
300
The most popular organizational scheme.
What is an outline?
300
The most common ways to cover up opinion is by using _____________.
What are logical fallicies?
300
This ensures connections between ideas and information.
What is coherence?
300
This pattern of writing might review the discussion held during a business meeting, a company's goals for the next fiscal year or the trajectory of a current project.
What is Summary and Response?
400
A writer must consider this group when approaching the writing process.
What is the audience?
400
This should clearly state a purpose or opinion.
What is a thesis statement.
400
This is a documented list of all sources, along with the most striking and important ideas from each source.
What is an annotated bibliography?
400
People often equate euphemisms with this.
What is political correctness?
400
This must always be objective; personal opinions should be set aside.
What is summary?
500
This conveys the writers’ attitudes toward their topic and their readers.
What is tone?
500
This should address the content of the paper without explicitly describing it.
What is the title? p. 41
500
According to your text, this can be the most exciting part of the writing process.
What is research?
500
This is the norm for academic writing.
What is standard English?
500
This pattern of writing offers the chance to investigate two sides of an issue.
What is Compare and Contrast?
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