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Plot Jot
MLA Writing
Grammar Bytes
Study your Studyisland
You Get the Idea
100
Contains the characters, character's problem, and setting.
What is an exposition/beginning?
100
MLA
What is Modern Language Association?
100
Teachers'
What is the plural possessive form of teacher?
100
On Saturday, Bill went to the baseball game but unfortunately it rained and he got wet, the game was delayed for 3 hours.
What is a run-on sentence?
100
What a writer intends to prove in an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
200
The events leading up to the climax.
What is the rising action?
200
The amount of space between each sentence.
What is double spaced?
200
How sleepy I am!
What is an exclamatory sentence?
200
Ways of figuring out what a new or unusual word is by using the words around the word to figure out the word that you do not know.
What are context clues?
200
Another word for a "smart guess"
What is a prediciton?
300
The best part of the story. The most interesting part.
What is the climax?
300
The parts of a heading.
What is the writer's name, teacher's name, subject or assignment details, and date?
300
The President, Barack Obama.
What is a sentence fragment?
300
Words and phrases that are considered very informal and are generally used only by one age group or other specific group of people. Words or expressions used within one group, profession, or business. This is often used as a "shortcut" to convey information quickly, with just a few words.
What is slang and jargon?
300
The sentences that support, or explain, the main idea.
What are supporting details or sentences?
400
The events leading to the conclusion?
What is the falling action?
400
Location of the works cited page.
What is on a separate sheet, in the top center head of the paper?
400
class, band, flock, swarm, staff, orchestra
What are collective nouns?
400
Reasons why an author would write.
What is to persuade, to entertain, to narrate, to inform, to describe?
400
Subject/Topic + Opinion/Argument = Thesis What you plan to argue + How you plan to argue it = Thesis
What is the formula for a good thesis?
500
The order the falling and rising action are written. This is the order in which the events happen.
What is chronological order?
500
Berry, Brandon. "How to Write an Essay." Total Writers 17 December 2008. 30 October 2009 http://www.totalwriters.com.
What is an electronic source or webpage?
500
In conclusion, first, finally, likewise, although
What are transitional words?
500
Outlines, semantic maps, lists, concept maps, cluster maps
What are graphic organizers?
500
These can separate long sentences into small units.
What are commas?