What is the writer's purpose/position or what information does the writer want to get across to the readers?
100
These are 3 prewriting techniques.
What are freewriting, listing/brainstorming, discussing, clustering/mapping, using the Internet, or keeping a journal?
100
These are the logical orders or sequences (arrangement) in which writers present their ideas.
What is time order (chronological), space order (spatial), or order of importance?
100
This is the literal meaining of "revising," and what people look for during revision.
What is "re-seeing" and what is determining if the writer made his/her point...or...changing the arrangement...or making certain everything belongs?
100
These are the 8 parts of speech.
What are 1) nouns, 2) pronouns, 3) adjectives,
4) adverbs, 5) verbs, 6) prepositions, 7) conjunctions, and 8) interjections?
200
You should pay attention to these things when you read a textbook.
What are boldface type, headings, charts, boxes, lists, chapter reviews, and summaries?
200
This appears 1) toward the beginning of a paragraph or 2) at the beginning of an essay and expresses the writer's main point.
What is a topic sentence or a thesis statement?
200
This is a logical and useful way to plan your draft.
What is an outline?
200
These are the things writers look for when editing their work.
What are correcting problems with grammar, style, word choice & use, and punctuation?
200
All sentences (independent clauses) have these three components.
What are subjects, verbs, and complete thoughts?
300
This constitutes CRITICAL READING.
What is THINKING about what you read while you read it?
300
This constitutes SUPPORT for writing.
What is the collection of examples, facts, or evidence that shows, explains, or proves the main point?
OR
What is P. FRET?
300
This is the first whole version of your ideas in writing.
What is a draft?
300
This means that all the ideas in an essay are unified and related to the main point.
What is UNITY?
300
This part of speech connects (or shows relationship to) a noun, pronoun, or verb with other information about it.
What is a preposition?
400
This is the audience for your writing.
Who is the person or people who will read what you write?
400
This is the difference between primary support and secondary support.
What are points (primary) that back up the main point AND what are points (secondary) that give details to back up primary support?
400
This refers to but does not repeat the thesis statement.
What is the concluding sentence?
400
This means that all support in an essay connects to form a whole.
What is COHERENCE?
400
These are the three types of verbs.
What are action verbs, helping verbs, and linking verbs?
500
These are the three necessary parts of an essay.
What are the introduction, the body, and the conclusion?
500
These are the three basics of good support.
What is relating to the main point, considering the reader, and having details and specifics?
500
These are ways to capture readers' interest and present the main point OR to close the essay with energy and make the conclusion memorable.
What are 1) opening with a quote, 2) giving an example, 3) telling a story, 4) stating an unexpected or surprising fact/idea, 5) offering a strong opinion or position, or
6) asking a question.
500
These are words, phrases, or sentences that connect ideas, so the reader can move smoothly from one point to another.
What are TRANSITIONS?
500
This is an idea expressed in a sentence that makes sense by itself without other sentences.