Essay Parts
All cited evidence should have these punctuation marks.
What are quotation marks?
These transitions begin the body paragraphs and the conclusion.
What are external transitions?
This type of noun should always be capitalized.
What are proper nouns?
The purpose of this paragraph is to introduce the topic and the thesis statement or claim to the readers.
What is the introduction?
This means to state in your own words.
What is to paraphrase.
You should do this to help organize your ideas.
What is plan (or outline)?
These transitions are found inside paragraphs to help move ideas along.
What are internal transitions?
Identify the error in this sentence: I wanted to go to the zoo but my mom wouldn't let me.
What is a missing comma after zoo?
The purpose of this part of an essay is to restate the thesis or claim and summarize main points.
What is the conclusion?
This is a direct quote from the text that supports the topic sentence for your body paragraph.
What is direct evidence?
FSA Writing prompts can be either informative or this.
What is argumentative?
External transitions are typically followed by this punctuation mark.
What is a comma?
Find the error in this sentence: "Have you ever been too Spain?"
What is "too" should be "to"?
There are usually between __ and __ body paragraphs.
What is between 2 and 3?
This explains how a quote supports the topic sentence for your paragraph.
What is elaboration?
Before you start writing the introduction, you should first develop this important part of the essay.
What is the thesis statement?
This is the number of minutes you have to write your essay.
What is 120 minutes?
Choose the correct form of there/their/they're: We went to _______ party last night.
What is their?
This is another word for the focus of your entire essay.
What is the thesis?
There should be at least this many quotes in each body paragraph.
What is two quotes?
This is what should be done after the draft is written to ensure the writer's thoughts are complete and the punctuation and spelling are correct.
What is edit and revise?
"He was a real Romeo with the ladies," is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is metaphor?
Identify the word that is spelled incorrectly. historically definitley similarly
What is "definitley?" (should be spelled "definitely")