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35 Cards in this Set
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Thesis Statement
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asserts your main idea you will develop in your writing. summarizes your ideas towards your subject and suggests your point of view.
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Connotations
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Implicit meaning of a word.
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Slang Words
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Language of a highly colloquial type.
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Topic Sentence
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Presents the main idea to be developed in a paragraph.
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Concrete diction
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pertain to words that refer to a particular thing or quality that can be perceived with your senses.
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Abstract diction
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qualities inferred from what one sees.
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Denotation
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a word's explicit meaning.
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Popular words
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common to the speech of educated and uneducated basic elements of communication.
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learned words
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words you read more often than heard
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Colloquialism
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words educated and uneducated use when they are speaking together informally.
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Hypothesis
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states a possible purpose for your writing
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Unity
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must be one topic
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Complete
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let your readers know all you can on topic.
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Order
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sentences must be able for the readers to recognize
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Coherence
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readers should move easily from one sentence to the other with no gaps.
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Unified
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Expresses only one idea
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Restricted
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limit the scope to what can be discussed in the space available
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Precise
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can only have one interpretation
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Planning
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developing ideas
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Drafting
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organizing, developing
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Revising
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Improving a work in progress
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Designing
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process for presenting the final version
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Appropriateness
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is it suited to your subject audience and purpose?
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Specificity
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not too general
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Imagery
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images or pictures that concrete words suggest... figures of speech
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4 requirments of topical paragraphs
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Unity Complete Order Coherence
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3 key elements of writing
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Subject Audience Purpose
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3 characteristics of good thesis
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Unified Restricted Precise
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3 levels of an ouline
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RomanNumerals Letters Numbes
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3 techniques that can be used in an introduction paragraph
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Quotation DirectStatement Factual information
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2 techniques to use in concluding paragraph
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Quotation Prediction
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4 stages in writing
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Planning Drafting Revising Designing
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3 qualities of effective diction
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Appropriatness Specificity Imagery
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4 ways to revise diction
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Eliminating vagueness jargon triteness ineffective imagery
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2 ways to expand sentences by modification
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1Essential parts of the writers' purpose 2Grounded in observation or experience
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