conventions
What is the highest point score you can receive on this portion?
What is 2 points?
What is the highest amount of points you can receive on this portion?
What is 4 points?
What is the highest number of points you can receive on this portion?
What is 4 points?
Which type of writing expresses a precise claim with supporting arguments?
What is an argumentative essay.
What should you do when your test administrator announces you have 10 minutes left?
Type your conclusion or edit/revise your essay.
What is the difference between editing and revising your essay?
Editing means to to fix conventional errors in grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Revising involves making changes to your ideas and organization.
How many sources must you cite in your essay?
What is 2 or more sources?
What does it mean for the essay to be consistently focused?
What is on topic and about the prompt?
Which type of writing informs the reader?
What is informational/informative?
What should you have on your planning sheet?
What is webs, bullets, graphs, boxes, or notes to guide your writing. Not a rough draft!!
What does conventions refer to?
What is spelling, sentence formation, punctuation, and capitalization?
Name a way to elaborate on your evidence.
What is personal experience story, give examples, or definitions of domain-specific words?
How do you move from one point to another while writing?
What is use transitions?
In which type of writing should you use domain specific vocabulary from the text?
What is Argumentative and Informative? Both essays require high level vocabulary related to the text sources.
What does PFO stand for in the first domain?
What is Purpose, Focus, and Organization
Are minor errors here and there acceptable for a score of two points?
What is yes?
What is a precise reference to a source?
To state exactly what source the evidence came from?
What are the components you must have in your essay?
What is Introduction, body, and conclusion?
What should you do first when you start the test?
What is read the prompt and decide if it is informative or argumentative?
What is the highest score you can receive on the FSA writing Assessment?
What is 10 points?
Is the formation of sentences important to this assessment?
What is yes? Part of the scoring rubric states a variety of sentence structures are used. (basic and complex)
How do you support your claim or topic?
What is text evidence from the sources.
What is a counterclaim?
The opposite argument.
If a prompt states you should agree/disagree or decide whether or not, it is an __________ prompt.
What is an argumentative prompt?
What are the two types of writing that the prompt may ask you to write?
What is Argumentative or informative?