General Writing
The only way to get better at writing is to
do it every day
Name the 5 steps of the writing process
Prewrtiing, Writing, Revising, Editing, Publishing
What format should your paper be written in?
MLA
Lively words that describe nouns and pronouns are called what?
Colorful or strong adjectives
Name one way that Poetry is different than other writing we have done.
Looks different, speaks to the mind and heart, says a lot in a few words, says things in a special way, and pleasing to the ear
Gathering ideas for writing topics start with your brain but you can also use...
building a file of writing ideas
What is PAST
Purpose, Audience, Subject, and Type
What should be used as a guideline to help you to understand what is expected of your essay?
Checklist
These types of words help you explain an order of occurrences.
Transition words
Name one type of rhyme that can be used in poetry.
Perfect, slant, or internal
Taking time to write and allow ideas to come to mind. This process is called...
Freewriting
During the prewriting stage, what must you come up with to keep you on topic?
Forming a Focus Statement
Every paragraph should have a beginning and ending sentence. What are they called?
Topic & Clincher
This type of prompt allows you to tell how something works, how it happens, or how to do it.
To explain.
What is the poetic device called when you use words together, such as dance, dare, and drop?
Alliteration
In order to help your reader feel, hear, smell, taste, or see your experience, you need to have your words....
Show and not tell
When you are collecting details for your essay during the Prewriting stage, name one process you can use to help?
Additional freewriting, listing, 5Ws & H, or clustering
Name the 3 parts that must be included in any complete piece of writing?
Beginning, Middle, and Ending
Words that talk on paper is considered...
Dialogue
What type of poem is typically funny and rhyming is used in the 1,2 & 5th line?
Limerick
When writing a persuasive letter, there are always 2 sides. You will include your opinion and what else?
The reasons why others have a different opinion.
At this stage of the writing porcess you should use a clean copy and have someone recheck your work.
Editing
Give an example of one detail to consider in the ending paragraph of your essay.
Revisit the focus, summarize the main ideas, emphasize a specific point, or give a final thought (something you learned).
This is used in writing to show a break in a sentence, to emphasize certain words, or to show that a speaker was interupted.
Dash
This type of poetry is short with the title being the subject and the words below have the same syllables.
Terse Verse.