Grammar & Mechanics
This punctuation incorrectly connects independent clauses.
What is a comma splice?
The writer’s initial attempt at writing an essay.
What is the First Draft?
A prewriting technique for generating ideas where writers write key words or phrases in list form.
What is Brainstorming?
The intended readers of an essay.
What is Audience? The intended readers of an essay.
The structure of the essay (or paragraph) that includes the introduction, body, and conclusion.
What is Organization?
Refers to sentence level organization and style.
What is mechanics?
The stage when a writer proofreads, edits, and revises.
What is a Final Draft?
A writer sets a timer and writes everything that comes to their mind.
What is Free-writing?
A sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author’s opinion, purpose, meaning, or position.
What is a Thesis?
Identifies the main idea of the paragraph that states the point the writer wishes to make about that subject.
What is a Topic Sentence?
Subjects and verbs must agree in number.
What is subject-verb agreement?
The last stage of writing where writers check thesis, audience, purpose, organization of the paper, development, sentence structure, grammar, word choice, and spelling.
What is Revision?
This includes pre-writing (invention), developing research questions and outlines, composing thesis statements, and proofreading.
What is the Composing process?
Describes the author’s attitude toward his material, the audience, or both.
What is Tone?
The distinctive style or manner of expression of an author or narrator.
What is voice?
Visual and textual devices that use specific elements/thoughts in writing such as formatting, punctuation, sentence structure, and words arrangement.
What is Emphasis?
The prewriting of a composition where writers discovers their purpose for writing and to gather ideas.
What is Invention?
A strategy or set of strategies for exploring topics, constructing arguments, and discovering solutions to problems.
What are Heuristics?
Describes paragraph unity and sentence cohesion.
What is Coherence?
The vantage point from which the author presents action of the story.
What is Point of View?