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28 Cards in this Set
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4 Types of Reading
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pleasure, informational, casual, critical
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Composing is a difficult ___________ process
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Recursive
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What makes a difference in your writing?
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Your topic
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writing will not improve with each essay?
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False
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All writing can be divided into 3 levels of English...
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informal, formal, technical
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5 Steps of the writing process
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generate ideas, thesis statement, drafting, revising, editing
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3 things to keep in mind when writing
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subject, audience, purpose
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3 major types of audiences
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supportive, hostile, wavering
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What's the purpose of editing
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clarity and correctness
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5 ways to generate ideas
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Brainstorming, journaling, freecwriting, clustering, questioning
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to have a effective thesis you must
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identify your subject, express a single idea, state important factor about subject, convey your purpose or reason for writing, include plan of development
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3 patterns of organization
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chronological, spatial, empathetic
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2 types of outlines
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formal, informal
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revising is for
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unity, coherence
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the voice in writing is influenced by
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vocabulary, syntax, attitude
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Denotation
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neutral dictionary meaning of a word
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connotation
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emotional association that goes beyond literal meaning
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redundancy
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the excessive or unnecessary repetition of an idea
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8 types of evidence
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reasons, examples, facts, statistics, personal observation, expert opinion, quotations, anecdotes
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thesis can be ________ or ________. which one has become the requirement of classroom writing?
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implicit or explicit
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What are the positions of a topic sentence?
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beginning, middle, end, beginning/end
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4 devices to ensure a paragraphs coherence:
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Traditional words, pronoun, repeated key terms, parallelism
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3 characteristics of a well designed paragraph
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unity, coherence, completenesss
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when is a paragraph complete?
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when you have provided enough : evidence and supporting details
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8 patterns of development
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description, narrations, illustration, division, process/analysis, comparison/contrast, cause/effect, arguement/ persuasion
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6 characteristics of evidence
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relevant, specific, adequate, dramatic, unified, accurate
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4 common problems in thesis statements. they don't:
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write highly opinionated, make announcements, make factual statement, make a broad statement
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what are the 6 traits is the writing model?
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ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions
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