Writing Process
The number of steps in the Writing Process.
What is 5?
A paragraph that tells a story.
What is Narrative?
This is what MLA stands for in academic writing.
What is the Modern Language Association?
The first paragraph of an academic essay.
What is an introduction?
The three main elements needed for an effective introduction.
This type of writing is used to explain, describe, give information or inform.
What is expository writing?
The last step of the writing process that includes sharing your work with others.
What is publishing?
A paragraph that tries to change the opinion or actions of others.
What is Persuasive?
The three ways to incorporate outside sources in your research writing.
What are summary, paraphrase and quotation?
The paragraphs in the middle of an academic essay that make claims and support the main argument.
What is the body?
The three elements required for an effective conclusion.
What are a review of the main ideas, a restated thesis statement, and a final thought?
A sentence that states the subject of a paragraph.
The name of the step of the writing process where the author should first write their Thesis Statement.
What is prewriting?
A paragraph that paints a picture of an object, person or place by using imagery.
What is Descriptive?
Writing intended to change, create or support the reader’s opinion on a topic.
What is persuasive writing?
The most important sentence of an essay that provides the topic and the author's stand on the topic to the audience.
What is the Thesis Statement?
These are all types of what element of the introduction: questions, quotations, historical, personal, audience references, definition, story, and a combination of two or more of the above.
What is the hook?
A strong statement that provides the reader with the topic of a piece of writing AND the author’s point of view of that topic. The rest of a piece of writing should support this statement.
What is Thesis Statement?
The third step of the Writing Process where the author makes improvements to the content and ideas of their writing.
What is Revision?
A paragraph that gives information or directions.
What is Expository?
These are inserted in the body of your research paper to briefly document the source of your information.
What are in-text citations?
The two parts of essay that include a version of the Thesis Statement.
What are the Introduction and Conclusion?
The underlined sentence in the introduction is an example of this:
"Working part-time as a cashier at the Piggly Wiggly has given me a great opportunity to observe human behavior. Sometimes I think of the shoppers as white rats in a lab experiment, and the aisles as a maze designed by a psychologist. Most of the rats—customers, I mean—follow a routine pattern, strolling up and down the aisles, checking through my chute, and then escaping through the exit hatch. But not everyone is so dependable. My research has revealed three distinct types of abnormal customer: the amnesiac, the super shopper, and the dawdler."
What is the forecast of main ideas?
An ordered list of the main points of your essay done in order to pre-organize your writing.
What is an outline?
The name of the step of the Writing Process where mistake in grammar, mechanics, spelling, etc. are corrected.
What is Editing and Proofreading?
The three elements required for a complete paragraph.
What are a Topic Sentence, supporting detail, and a closer/clincher?
A Statement of Fact, a Statement of Policy, and a Statement of Value.
What are ways to state an opinion in persuasive writing? (or types of thesis statements for persuasive writing)
The page after the end of the essay that lists any outside sources used within the essay.
What is Works Cited Page?
An introduction in academic writing should NEVER start with this.
What is the Thesis Statement?
Acknowledging, in your writing, that there are valid arguments against yours -- this actually strengthens your case.
What is Making Concessions?