To get ideas about what to write about, what should you use?
What is a prewriting technique?
100
This is the sentence tht presents the point of your writing.
What is your topic sentence?
100
This literally means "re-seeing."
What is revision?
100
This is telling a story of an event or experience and showing why it is important through the details about the experience.
What is narration?
200
Your reason for writing.
What is your purpose?
200
These are 3 ways to narrow a topic.
What are freewriting, brainstorming, mapping/clustering, journaling, or using the Internet?
200
This is the main support you provide for a topic sentence.
What is primary support?
200
This is the process of ordering and linking your ideas in ways readers will understand.
What is coherence?
200
This type of paragraph or essay uses examples, and is often referred to as the paragraph or esway of examples.
What is illustration?
300
This is writing that has a serious and formal tone, using correct grammar and spelling.
What is formal English?
300
What is one of the worst errors you can make in college...or in any walk of life...that involves copying someone else's words or ideas...online, from a book, or from a classmate's paper?
What is plagiarism?
300
This is what writers provide to back up the main support for their topic sentences.
What are details (secondary support)?
300
You can organize your ideas in these 3 common ways.
What are TIME order, SPACE order, and order of IMPORTANCE?
300
This type of writing involves the 5 senses, telling how the topic looks, sounds, smells, tastes, and/or feels.
What is description?
400
This is what you want to get across to your readers.
What is your main point?
400
How can you narrow a topic?
What is breaking it into smaller parts that interest you?
400
This is the plan your text tells you to use to shape your topic and support into sentences.
What is an outline?
400
Revising your writing includes these things.
What are checking for 1) a topic sentence that includes the main point, 2) details, 3) organization, and 4) the conclusion?
400
This kind of paragraph or essay tells readers how to do something or how something works.
What is process analysis?
500
These are details that show, explain, or prove what you write about (PFRET)?
What is support?
500
This is what you will write about.
What is your topic?
500
This is the first writing of your paragraph in complete sentences.
What is a first draft?
500
Editing takes place after revision and constitutes 4 things.
What are 1) grammar, 2) punctuation, 3) spelling, and 4) word choice?
500
This is something writers should refer to after writing a paragraph or essay to ensure that they covered everything they should have covered.