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Parts of an Essay
Types of essays
Conventions
Reading the Prompt
Pacing Yourself
100
This sentence states your position in the introduction paragraph
What is a claim?
100
This type of essay examines ideas
What is an explanatory/informative essay?
100
This is at the beginning of every sentence
What is a capital?
100
The first thing you write on your planning sheet before you start planning
What is MEETCCC?
100
At the one hour mark, you should be doing this.
Start writing and revising your essay.
200
This sentence catches your attention and is first
What is a hook, gripping grabber, lead sentence?
200
This type of writing defends an idea
What is an argumentative essay?
200
You do this at the beginning of every paragraph
What is indent?
200
Forming a question from the prompt helps to identify this
What is the topic?
200
When you have completed your writing, and time remains, what should you do?
Read your writing, revise and edit.
300
These paragraphs should include your point (topic sentence), evidence, and elaboration, and a transition.
What is a body paragraph?
300
In an argumentative essay, this is the idea you are defending
What is the claim?
300
This separates your ideas into chunks that make sense
What is end punctuation? . , ?
300
Identify which of these two writing formats would be used on the FSA Writing
What is argumentative or explanatory/informative?
300
Do this after you read the prompt but before you begin reading the text.
Number the parts of the prompt, underline key words?
400
This information comes from the text and includes "According to the text..." or "The author stated..."
What are sentence starters?
400
Acknowledging the ideas of your opponents and arguing against it
What is a counterclaim
400
This should be used when citing an article
What is quotation marks?
400
You must use these to get your information for your essay
What is resources (articles, texts)?
400
How much time should you designate for planning your essay
10-15 minutes?
500
This wraps up your essay and connects back to the thesis (Minimum of 1 sentence)
What is the conclusion?
500
How do you determine which position to take on the issue?
What is "whatever side offers the most text evidence?"
500
This is used to cite the title of a book
What is italics?
500
The M in MEETCCC means __________ How do you use this?
What is multiple sources? You must use more than 1 text in your writing.
500
How long is the FSA Writing?
What is 120 minutes?