Pre-College Writing

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What are the 5 R's of notetaking?

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Record

Reduce

Recite

Reflect

Review

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What is the first step to finding the paragraph's topic sentence?

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Ask what each sentence is describing

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What is the second step to finding the paragraph's topic sentence?

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Ask what the paragraph is describing

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What are the 4 parts of a sentence?

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Subject

Verb

A complete thought

closing punctuation

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Subject

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Person, place of thing the sentence is about

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Verb

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The physical or mental action the subject is doing

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Action Verb

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Doing word as in "the bird can fly

Becomes a linking verb when followed by a describing subject

eg: you seem tired.

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Linking Verb

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Not a doing work, used to link a noun to a word of idea

Anton is ready.

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Compound Verb

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2 or more verbs describing the same subject

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Verb Phrase

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Group of Words that act as a verb

eg: the game has been played.

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How do you find the subject of a sentence?

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ask who or what is performing the action

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Compound Subject

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2 or more connected words

eg aunt and uncle

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What must a clause contain?

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A Subject and A verb

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What are the 4 steps to Active Reading

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Prepare

Read

Capture Key ideas

Review

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Prepare for Active Reading

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Look at section headings

Formulate questions from the headings, to answer after reading.

Note any keywords to be defined.

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Reading a Text

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Read through once without highlighting, thinking about the questions and keywords you formulated earlier.

After reading, see if you can answer those questions and give definitions.

Re-read if you need to.

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Capturing Key Points

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After the first read write the answers to your questions and definitions.

Note in margin anything important, that you don't understand, that you don't agree with and where another author is cited

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Review

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Answer your questions out loud.

Write a summary of the chapter at the bottom of your notes.

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Cornell Note taking System

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Take a sheet of paper and divide into 2 columns with a box at the bottom.

In left side write your questions to be answered and any keywords.

On Right, answer your questions and give definitions to keywords after reading

At the bottom write your chapter summary.

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Independent Clause

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Contains a subject, verb and complete thought

could stand alone as a complete sentence.

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Dependent Clause

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Contains subject and verb but NOT a complete thought.

It would not make sense on it's own

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Phrase

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Does not contain both a subject and a clause,

fragment sentence

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Verbal Phrase

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contains a verb ending in '-ing' or the infinitive form (to + verb)

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Prepositional Phrase

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group of words beginning with a preposition

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Preposition

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indicates the location of or relationship between nouns.

Always includes an object

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Object

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a word or group of words that complete the prepositional phrase.

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Independent sentence

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has one independent clause but no dependent clause.

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Compound sentence

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multiple independent clauses but no dependent clause.

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Complex sentence

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has on independent clause and at least one dependent clause.

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Complex-compound sentence

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has multiple independent clauses and at least one dependent clause

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Freewriting

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Pre-Writing method in which you write out everything you know about the subject even when they seem

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Mind Wheels/clustering

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Kinda like memory mapping, main topic in middle, then bubbles all round with ideas you can think of.

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Summarizing

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Presenting the main points or essence of another text in a condensed form

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Arguing/Persuading

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Expressing a viewpoint on an issue or topic in an effort to convince others that your viewpoint is correct

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Narrating

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Telling a story or giving an account of events

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Evaluating

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Examining something in order to determine its value or worth based on a set of criteria

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Analyzing

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Breaking a topic down into its component parts in order to examine the relationships between the parts

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Responding

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Writing that is in a direct dialogue with another text

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Examining/Inverstigating

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Systematically questioning a topic to discover or uncover facts that are not widely known or accepted, in a way that stirves to be as neutral and objective as possible

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Observing

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Helping the reader see and understand a person. place, object, image or event that you have directly watched or experienced through detailed sensory descriptions.

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Reducing Notes

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Concisely summarize ideas and facts

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Subordination

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Info in headings is general

info in subheadings more specific

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What is used to join 2 independent clauses

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colon

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what is used to seperate 2 or more coordinate adjectives that describe the same noun?

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comma

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In exploratory essays where should you include information that highlights an additional question?

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conclusion

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In exploratory essays where would you discuss info about where you might look to answer additional questions?

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conclusion

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In exploratory essays where do you include a brief overview of types of sources you researched

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Introduction

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In exploratory essays where should you discuss information that restates the problem you explored?

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conclusion

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Parallelism

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Headings and subheadings should be structured the same

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Coordination

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Information in each heading should have some significance.

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Division

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Each heading should have 2 or more parts.

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Analytical Statements

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breaks down issue in component parts and evaluates them

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Exploratory statements

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Explain something

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Argumentative Statements

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Makes a claim and then justifies it by using evidence.

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In exploratory essays, where should you discuss information that addresses any additional questions?

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Body Paragraphes

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In exploratory essays where should you introduce sources and why they where chosen

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Body Paragraphs

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In exploratory essays where should you review institutions and people involved?

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Body Paragraphes

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In exploratory essays where should you include text that states why the information is important and dependable in relation to the problem?

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Body Paragraphs

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In exploratory essays where should you discuss info that outlines some of the problems possible causes?

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Introduction