The Writing Process
The Basic Essay
Using Sources Appropriately
Revising for improvement
Patterns of Writing
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This is the perspective from which an essay is told.
What is point of view? See p. 13 in your text
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A thesis statement is not required in this type of essay.
What is Narrative? See p. 22 in your text.
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This is the best way to develop a strong research paper.
What is thorough, useful research? See p. 46 in your text.
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This carries more weight than any other word in a sentence.
What are verbs? See p. 80 in your text.
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A sequence of steps to accomplish a task or to achieve a specific result.
What is Process Analysis? See p. 96 in your text.
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Mapping and clustering
What are the next steps after freewriting and brainstorming? See p. 16 in your text.
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The number of kinds of thesis statements that are generally used in essay writing.
What is three? See p. 26 in your text.
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Taking ideas from a conversation with a colleague, copying and pasting an article from the internet and not citing sources for an essay.
What is plagiarism? See p. 46 in your text.
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A range of sentence length, functiuon and structure.
What is sentence variety? See p. 79 in your text.
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This pattern of writing is often told in the first person.
What is Narrative? See p. 94 in your text.
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This invention strategy generates immediate ideas and allows a writer to bypass the frustration of simply staring at a blank page.
What is freewriting? See p. 15 in your text.
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The most popular organizational scheme.
What is an outline? See p. 33 in your text.
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The most common ways to cover up opinion is by using _____________.
What are logical fallicies? See p. 56 in your text.
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This ensures connections between ideas and information.
What is coherence? See p. 77 in your text.
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This pattern of writing might review the discussion held during a business meeting, a company's goals for the next fiscal year or the trajectory of a current project.
What is Summary and Response? See p. 101 in your text.
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A writer must consider this group when approaching the writing process.
What is the audience? See pp. 7 and 11 in your text.
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This should clearly state a purpose or opinion.
What is a thesis statement. See pp. 26-29 in your text. See also p. 75 in your text.
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This is a documented list of all sources, along wiht the most striking and important ideas from each source.
What is an annotated bibliography? See p. 62 in your text.
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People often equate euphemisms with this.
What is political correctness? See p. 85 in your text.
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This must always be objective; personal opinions should be set aside.
What is summary? See p. 102 in your text.
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This conveys the writers’ attitudes toward their topic and their readers.
What is tone? See p. 7 in your text.
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This should address the content of the paper without explicitly describing it.
What is the title? See p. 41 in your text.
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According to your text, this can be the most exciting part of the writing process.
What is research? See p. 48 in your text.
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This is the norm for academic writing.
What is standard English? See p. 82 in your text.
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This pattern of writing offers the chance to investigate two sides of an issue.
What is Compare and Contrast? See p. 106 in your text.