In this part of the writing process, you develop ideas by writing whatever comes to mind on a specific topic for up to 15 minutes.
What is freewriting?
100
Seamus McGraw described himself as this because he hunted the old fashioned way.
What is a purist?
100
A fragment is an incomplete sentence because it can be missing what two things?
What is a subject or a verb?
100
This sentence provides the main point of your paragraph.
What is the topic sentence?
100
If I have a group of three or more items or ideas, what punctuation do I use to separate them?
What is a comma?
200
In this part of the writing process, you read over your draft and make changes to make your piece better.
What is Revision?
200
Susan Musgrave was warned she wouldn't be allowed to visit her husband (in Visiting Rites) if this happened again.
What is traces of cocaine were found in anything that went from her to her husband?
200
This is the term for two sentences that run together with no punctuation.
What is a run on sentence?
200
Correct this sentence (if it needs it):
Neither my friends or my dog trainer really know how to do a triple axle.
What is "Neither my friends nor my dog trainer knows how to do a triple axle."
200
These two words are the shortest words in the English language?
What is "I" and "a"?
300
When you look over your writing to correct errors, you are doing what?
What is editing or proofreading?
300
The nickname for the Vancouver Regional Island Correction Center where Musgrave's husband was imprisoned in Visiting Rites.
What is Wilkie?
300
These are the eight parts of speech
What is noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, adverb, interjection, and pronoun
300
Rewrite the sentence to avoid redundancy.
The little child Rafael is a preschool student.
What is "Rafael is a preschool student."
300
Correct this sentence using appropriate punctuation:
I left early for Brazil in fact I'm not coming back.
What is: I left for Brazil; in fact, I'm not coming back.
400
You should always make sure you know who you are writing to. This group is called your
What is audience?
400
This is what finally made Weiss leave her husband in Why Don't These Women Just Leave?
What is a woman agreed with her that a building she saw was pretty? (The woman called her husband a horse's a**)
400
I can use these words to take the place of nouns
What are pronouns?
400
This paragraph usually states the purpose or reason for your essay and catches your reader’s interest.
What is an opening or introductory paragraph?
400
This is why Musgrave's husband first went to prison in Visiting Rites?
What is bank robbery?
500
In this writing strategy, you start with one paragraph and pull something out of it to write another paragraph. You can do this several times.
What is looping?
500
Weiss used the literary technique anaphora when she repeated these words in most of her paragraphs...
What is I didn't leave?
500
One way to clean up a run on sentence is to end the first phrase with a period and then capitalize the next phrase. What are the two other ways to correct run on sentences?
What is separate the phrases with a semicolon or separate them with a comma and a conjunction?
500
Correct this sentence(if it needs it):
Cam eats as much as him.
What is "Cam eats as much as he."
500
If your thesis essay map consists of 4 ideas, how long will your essay be?