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Writing Focus
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Think Mark,Think!
Market Madness
A "Fun" Category
100

How we organize our writing is the _____

Text Structure

100

When forming an _____, you need to ensure that you have a good process and reasoning to support it.

Argument.

100
Scientific Journals and intensive studies are more what than the weird meme from Facebook?

Credible

100

When a new trend comes, it becomes the what for a few weeks?

Focus
100

The number of children Mrs. Farrimond has

3

200
These words help the flow of your paper

Transitions

200

Someone takes an opposing view to your side and they provide a reason as to why. They gave you a what?

Counterclaim.

200

Looking at all the parts of a piece of work is performing a what?

An analysis.

200

For advertisers, in order to hit the biggest audience it would be wise to have ____ in their commercials.

Inclusion

200

Where Mrs. Farrimond went to college

BYU

300

True or False

When you write, the thing you revise and edit is the draft.

True

300

When writing an argument you need, evidence, commentary, citations, but most importantly a ___.

Claim

300

In order to draw our own conclusions we need to look at all the _____ and make our own ______ 

Evidence and interpretation
300

I buy candy on the regular, I am a sugar ____.

Consumer.

300

The 3 types of rhetorical appeals are

Ethos, pathos, logos

400

A group of words is a _____

Phrase


Bonus 400 points: A small section of a piece of writing is not a phrase rather a what?

400

The main purpose of argumentative pieces is to do what to an audience? 

A. Influence  B. Persuade  C. put them to sleep

B. Persuade

400
Copying from an already existing article is not thinking critically, it is what?

Plagiarism

400

Using an athlete to market to wannabe sports superstars is smart because the athlete has what over them?

Influence.

400

"Lightning danced across the sky" is an example of this type of figurative language.

Personification

500

When you capitalize words, punctuate properly and have proper diction, you follow common English _______

Conventions

500

This is the form of language that is designed to be persuasive and impressive to an audience.

Rhetoric.

500
This activity can be as large as searching for ways to invest city funds to as small as looking up today's weather. All it takes is a little what?

Research

500

Gender, age, wages, disposable income, location, language spoken, are all things that can be considered when looking at _____

Demographics. 

Bonus 300 points: What might be the demographics of a product like the Xbox One?

500
His son flew too close to the sun, and fell to his untimely death

Icarus

600

Nonfiction texts tend to have a _____ while stories and have something similar in a ______

Central idea and plot

600

When arguing, you need to ensure what you say is ____ to the topic at hand; no one wants to hear about your toes in a discussion about space.

Relevant

600

When someone wants more details they might ask you to ____. But when they want the TL:DR version, you should keep it _____ 

Elaborate and Concise.

600

"More effective than the leading brand" is a quote that tends to force the audience to make a what?

Comparison

600

This character met her doom as a sickly invalid in this 1930's drama

Mrs. Stevenson