AVID Writing Process
The five parts of the AVID Writing Process.
What is Pre-Writing, Drafting, Revising, Polishing, and Publishing?
What is the introduction?
The formula for a claim.
What is it "is clear that argument because reason A and reason B"?
The five phases of Focused Note-Taking.
What is Taking Notes, Processing Notes, Connecting Thinking, Summarizing and Reflecting, and Applying Learning?
When you make big changes to revise your essay.
What is the Revision part of the AVID Writing Process?
The two main ways you can fill in a graphic organizer or write an outline.
What is using bullet points or sentence frames?
The formula for a counterclaim.
What is "some people think that counterclaim but this does not disprove this claim because reason you do not agree"?
The reason you should revisit your notes.
What will help you remember the information better?
When you make small changes to your essay.
What is the Polishing part of the AVID Writing Process?
The two main things you need to share in your conclusion.
What is the claim restated and your final thoughts?
The thing you support with your Reason A and Reason B paragraphs.
What is the claim?
An example of a time you can use Phase Five of the Focused Note-Taking process (Applying Learning).
What is studying for a test, quiz, or other classroom assignment.
Name one way we used the AVID Writing Process in the last two weeks.
What is revising our essays, polishing our essays, or drafting our essays?
The name of the place you get your supporting evidence from.
What is a source?
The two things a claim needs to be.
What is narrow and debatable?
Highlighting, revising, underlining, and adding to your notes.
What is Processing Notes?
An example of a time you use the AVID Writing Process that is NOT writing an essay.
What is a text message, an email, or focused note-taking? (other options accepted at teacher's discretion)
An essay that is focused on a claim, refutes a counterclaim, and clearly has an essay structure.
What is an essay with a strong organization or purpose?
A real life reason you would use the argumentative essay tools we've learned.
What is an argument with your parents or a debate with a friend (or another answer at the teacher's discretion)?
The part of your notes a summary should respond to.
What is the Essential Question?