Essay Structure
The word for when your paragraphs' transition smoothly between their topics.
What is "flow"?
AKA student hours, this window of time is ideal for meeting with your professor to discuss class concerns, questions, and help with clarifying a prompt.
What are "office hours"?
The document where you can find information such as a professor's email, assignment schedules, exam dates, and the professor's grading policy.
What is a "syllabus"?
Fixing grammar mistakes, spelling errors, and formatting issues are all examples of this.
What is "editing"?
Done in order to avoid plagiarism, this task involves properly crediting the original source of where you received information or a quote for an assignment.
What is "citation"/"citing".
The number of main ideas each paragraph should discuss.
What is "one"?
A set of skills which are useful for making sure you don't turn in your assignments late.
What are "time management" skills?
Name what type of essay your first essay is.
What is a "literacy narrative"?
Comments from peers, consultants, and the professor which give you ideas of what to adjust in your paper to improve its overall quality.
What is "feedback"?
When conducting research, you want your evidence to have this characteristic/quality.
What is "reliability"/"reliable"?
This type of phrase includes words such as "although", "therefore", and "however".
What is a transitional phrase?
Name one app I recommended which helps organize your tasks.
Acceptable responses: Google Calendar, Google Tasks, Todoist, FocusKeeper, or the Canvas App.
This brainstorming/annotation technique involves two columns where the column on the left includes quotes and ideas, and the right column involves your reaction and questions about everything on the left.
What is a "double journal entry"?
This type of revision technique has writers pulling the main idea from each paragraph of their essay in order to check their essay's organization.
What is a "reverse outline"?
This method involves asking probing/guiding questions in order to inspire new ideas to write about and clarify what direction to take your paper.
What is the "inquiry method"?
Name what each letter in M.E.A.L. means.
What are Main Idea, Evidence, Analysis, and Link?
AKA the "roadmap" for your essay, this tells readers what big claim(s) you will make in your paper.
What is a "thesis"?
Your claims/arguments cannot solely rely on opinion. They must be supported by this in order to be valid.
What is "evidence"?
The definition of S.O.C. and L.O.C.
Sooner Order Concern and Later Order Concern
This step in the writing process is the largest, and consists of brainstorming ideas to use in your paper.
What is "prewriting"?
The purpose of using the M.E.A.L. Plan during your writing process.
What is making your essay structure strong/create flow in your essay?
The website to use in order to make appointments for the writer's workshop and professional writing consultants such as Aaron and Sam.
What is WCOnline?
The document you should always have nearby while writing/revising a paper. It will tell you everything about the main task of the assignment, background information, and when it is due.
What is "the prompt"?
The difference between revision and editing.
This brainstorming technique involves using shapes, symbols, colors, and/or lines to connect ideas to a central idea. You start with the central topic in the middle, and then add more related ideas branching from that central topic.
What is "Idea Mapping"?