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I State My Case... argument
Crossword Clues
Hodge Podge
Writing Schmiting
100

This form of active note-taking involves leaving comments or questions in the margins of a text

Annotating

100

The building blocks a writer uses to support their major claim are called these.

Reasons

100

I’m that state where bad dad jokes
Sound like brilliant art,
Where you love your own reflection
And your grocery cart.
I dance on winning lotteries,
On crushes texting “hey,”
But I won’t pass a drug test—
I’m a feeling, not a spray.
Name this giddy suspect.


EUPHORIA

100

She's the actress whose presidential mid-term elections matter more than doomsday!

Meryl Streep

100

This helpful tool that's been around hundreds of years sounds like the name of a dinosaur, but it's actually an excellent modern resource for helping you to expand your vocab.

Thesuarus

200

Deconstructing an argument to understand how it supports its claims is known as this.

Analysis

200

You might know why an author believes something, but you also need to know what ___ helped them arrive at that conclusion.

Evidence

200

Unscramble this jumble and you'll get the name of a drama that left its main character in dire straits.

1 WORD: WARTS

STRAW

200
To identify a media controversy, a writer must first use the web to do this:

Research

200

A topic sentence must present a _ _ _ _ _ that the paragraph will prove through supporting reasons and evidence.

(5 letters)

Claim

300

When you arrive in college, you better learn this type of digital ettiquette quickly if you want a reply in your inbox.

Email Ettiquette

300

I'm the last and most important sentence of the introduction paragraph. So there!

Thesis

300

She's made more than 1 Billion dollars since her debut in 1957.

Barbie

300

Though Rue's story is different, according to the National Institute of Health, the median number for most people to achieve this is 2-3 attempts.

Sobriety. (Though some studies report an average closer to 5).

300

A lead-in and an explanation make up this fancy writing sandwich.

Quotation sandwich.

400

Before you cite an author, you better assess their ________ to ensure you're using a valuable source.

Credibility

400

Typically, a self-aware writer will include this in their argument to acknowledge other views... even if they don't agree with them.

Counterargument

400

If you listen to the advice of this film title, you'll avoid a neck strain and an impending apocalypse. 3 WORDS

Don't Look Up

400

Instead of writing your entire paper at 4:57 am, a better process is to prepare multiple versions of these and revise as you go.

Drafts

400

Writers show a conversation between authors when they do this; it'd the same skill used for the electronic creation of new sound. 

Synthesize

500

Every writer's argument will show some degree of this _____. A critical reader will be able to identify it.

Bias

500

The urgent demand or need to write, or enter the conversation, is known as this.

Exigency

500

Subtract the PH and add an O and you'll know the title of this film about family trauma.

1 WORD: PENCHANT


Encanto


500

If you're using this in your final paper, it's not likely to end well.

Chat GPT

500

A writer signals they're ready to respond to the conversation when they include this type of pronoun.

Self-reflexive or I