Clustering and freewriting are examples of this stage of writing (Hacker & Sommers, 2011, pp. 8-9).
What is prewriting?
100
This process involves making a plan for an essay, ensuring that the "writing is credible and logical" (Hacker & Sommers, 2011, p. 12).
What is outlining?
100
This part of the writing process involves the actual writing of an essay.
What is drafting?
100
This part of the writing process involves re-reading an essay multiple times and making changes.
What is revising?
100
This type of the process involves sharing the writing project with others.
What is publication?
200
This type of activity involves a person writing a short period of time (approximately 5 minutes) without stopping (Hacker & Sommers, 2011, p. 9).
What is freewriting?
200
This statement in an essay provides the main argument of the paper.
What is a thesis?
200
This section of an essay includes a hook for the reader and the thesis that guides the entire paper.
What is the introduction?
200
This type of activity involves having a second set of eyes to read an essay in order to make suggestions for improvement.
What is draft sharing?
200
Name two ways that a person can share his/her work with others.
What is submitting to a newspaper/magazine, blogging, and presenting a reading.
*Note: Other suggestions are possible and can be approved by the teacher.
300
This type of activity involves placing a central idea in the middle of a page and writing supporting ideas around it (Hacker & Sommers, 2011, p. 8).
What is clustering?
300
This type of thesis acts as a guide for planning and can be modified as the essay develops (Hacker & Sommers, 2011, p. 10).
What is a working thesis?
300
This part of an essay may summarize the paper's arguments and/or discuss the future of the argument's place in society.
What is the conclusion?
300
This type of revision involves looking at the content, organization, and focus of an essay (Hacker & Sommers, 2011, p. 20).
What is global revision?
300
This type of publication involves a writer producing and self-publishing that involves posting his/her work online. Some people use this venue in a more journal-style format.
What is blogging?
400
This activity involves gathering information from books, online databases, magazines, or other internet or print resources.
What is researching?
400
This part of an outline provides backing to the claims that the writer makes.
What is supporting evidence?
400
These items in an essay help to create flow from paragraph to paragraph and may begin with words like therefore, however, and also.
What are transitions?
400
This type of revision looks at sentence structure, word choices, and other more specific items in an essay (Hacker & Sommers, 2011, p. 21).
What is sentence-level revision?
400
Name a local newspaper.
What is the Shelby County Reporter or the Birmingham News?
500
What are the effects of pajama days on student performance is an example of this form of brainstorming.
What is question posing?
500
This type of outline is highly structured, following a specific set of guidelines, such as making sure that each level has at least two items (Hacker & Sommers, 2011, pp. 12-14).
What is a formal outline?
500
An effective body paragraph should have what three items?
What is claim, data, and warrant?
BONUS POINTS (Whole class): Explain what these items are.
500
True/False: Proofreading and revising are the same thing.
EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWER.
What is false. Revising is the process of looking at the content of the paper including whether it fulfills its purpose and whether it is logical on both a whole paper level and sentence level. Proofreading is to check for grammar, spelling, or other typing issues.
500
This type of essay can be submitted to a newspaper/magazine in order to present a problem/concern with suggestions for improvement.