Types of Words
These are the words that connect the steps in a paragraph. These words and phrases show the relationships between the ideas in a paragraph. Examples include: First, then, after
What are transition words?
This begins with the thesis statement, shows the organization of the essay, tells what ideas you will discuss and shows which ideas will come first, second, and so on, and ends with the essay’s conclusion.
What is an outline?
This type of writing expresses specific sensory details about a person, place, or thing
What is descriptive writing?
This gives the author’s opinion or states an important idea about the topic. It should give an idea that can be discussed and explained with supporting ideas
What is a thesis statement?
a group of paragraphs written about a single topic and a central main idea
What is an essay?
Words that tell us how things look, feel, taste, sound, or smell. These words also describe how you feel about something.
What are adjectives?
In this process, you review your work for things like clarity, sentence structure, and logic.
What is editing?
This type of writing gives information, explains directions, or shows how something happens
What is expository writing?
Figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses
What is imagery?
This is the the first paragraph of a short essay. It explains the topic with general ideas. It contains a topic sentence and a thesis statement
What is an introduction?
These phrases are important in descriptive writing. They show the position, location, or direction of objects in space and time.
What are prepositional phrases?
This element of good writing shows professionalism and competence. It includes the following features:
Double-spaced paragraphs
Arial or Times New Roman font
Font size 12pt
Black text
What are formatting guidelines?
In this type of writing, the writer tries to convince the reader of a point of view on a topic that people disagree about
What is opinion or persuasive writing?
To ensure your writing properly has this element, you should make sure outline shows that your paragraphs in the right order and your supporting points and details are in the right order
What is organization?
To discuss how two people, places, or things are different. For example, one main advantage of a bicycle over a car is that a bicycle doesn’t create any pollution
What is contrasting?
To avoid making overgeneralizations, writers use these expressions. Examples include most, a lot of, and some
What are quantity expressions?
This type of organization can be outlined like this:
Topic sentence comparing / contrasting two topics (A and B)
Points of comparison / contrast about Topic A
Points of comparison / contrast about Topic B
Concluding sentence
What is Block Organization?
This type of writing is a description of how to do something. It explains the steps you need to follow to complete an activity. Recipes are one type of this writing.
What is process writing?
A paragraph has this element when all the sentences support one single idea.
To successfully showcase this element, the supporting sentences must support, demonstrate, prove, or develop the main idea in the topic sentence
What is unity?
This is an incorrect sentence in which important punctuation is missing between clauses
What is a run-on sentence?
These verbs show the strength of a writer’s opinion or argument and include words like should, ought to, and could
What are modal auxiliary verbs?
This process includes looking at primary and secondary sources and reading laterally
What is research?
This type of writing first explains an issue and then proposes one or more answers to that issue. Often this type of writing requires more than one paragraph
What is problem / solution writing?
This means that the ideas have a logical flow; the relationship between the sentences is clear and one idea connects to the next. One way to achieve this in a paragraph is to use a pattern of organization, such as time order, spatial order, or order of importance.
What is coherence?
This is a brief reference within your text that indicates the source you consulted.
It should properly attribute any ideas, paraphrases, or direct quotations to your source, and should direct readers to the entry in the Works Cited list.
What is an in-text citation?