Writing Review
How many essays are you writing on the EOC?
1
What is the best strategy for responding to Part A/B Questions?
Answer Part B first
What are the steps of R.A.C.E.S?
Restate, answer, cite, explain, summarize
What are the three types of essay?
Narrative, Informational, Argumentative
During this span, each of the 50 states was represented on the reverse with a depiction of its cultural legacy or a significant event in its history.
What is the meaning of "legacy" as it is used in the passage?
Tradition
What types of words should you capitalize?
"I", proper nouns, the first word of a sentence
What is a narrative?
A narrative is a story that follows the plot structure
It was true, there were other dogs. There could not but be other dogs on so vast a place, but they did not count. They came and went, resided in the populous kennels, or lived obscurely in the recesses of the house
What is the meaning of the word "populous" as it is used above?
Crowded
How many paragraphs should your essay have?
What is the goal of an informative essay?
To inform readers
Of course there had been at the outset a few dissenting opinions, the gist of the opposing sentiment being that the Indians would make the operation of the route impossible.
What does the word "Dissenting" mean in the sentence?
Disagreeing
2-3
What is theme?
Theme: Message of the story- addresses universal ideas
It was not merely these dangers of dire exposure and privation that threatened, for wherever the country permitted of human life, Indians abounded.
What does the word privation mean as it is used in paragraph 4? A. division B. hardship C. tedium D. stamina
B. Hardship
A.What does a counterargument do?
B. What type of essay do we use it in?
In argumentative essays, a counterargument acknowledges a point that the other side would argue and presents a rebuttal as to why it is incorrect.
"While some may say..., it is true that..."
This is required in an argumentative essay.