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| Form/Structure - writing component |
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Essay's skeleton, organization, or structure
1st Part of writing Essay |
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| Content - writing component |
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encompass unique information on subject "personality" of essay
2nd Part of Writing Essay |
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| Style - writing component |
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Dressing up essays with vivid verbs, smiles, or sentence openers
3rd Part of Writing Essay |
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| Mechanics - writing component |
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the rules that govern the essay
4th Part of Writing Essay |
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| Voice - writing component |
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The way each of the 4 parts combines. Makes a good essay truly great
5th Part of Writing Essay |
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| statement of purpose, intent, or main idea of an essay |
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| 5 Essay Parts or Structure |
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Thesis Statement - main idea of paper
Introduction (background information)
Body (proof as to why Thesis is true)
Transitions (moves readerthrough essay)
Conclusion (wraps it up) |
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| when the author's personal thoughts/feelings show in their writing |
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| Types of Thesis Statements |
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Expository or Informative
Narrative or Descriptive
Persuasive |
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| Expository of Informative Thesis |
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| Gives information on a particular topic |
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| Narrative or Descriptive Thesis |
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| Describes person, place, thing, event, or tells a story with a purpose |
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| Persuasive (Argumentative) Thesis |
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| Reasons and argues to change reader's perspective |
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| 3 Steps to create thesis statement |
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1. Determine essay's intent
2. Narrow topic
3. Develop 2 part statement |
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| Expository/Informative Essay |
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| Examples- reports, directions, instructions, analysis, biographies |
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| Narrative/Descriptive Essay |
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| Examples - personal narrative, travelogues |
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| Persuasive (argumentative) Essay |
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| Examples - Calls for the reader to agree or disagree with writer |
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Inform - explains something
Describe - tells a story
Persuade - argues a point of writer |
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| Five Paragraph Organization of Essay |
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1. Introduction
2. 3 body paragraphs
3. Conclusion |
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| Well Structured Paragraph |
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| Topic sentence, transitions, on-topic discussion, clincher |
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Telling - makes the statement
Showing - proves the statement |
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| Showing (Evidence & Support) |
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8 Ways
1. Examples
2. Personal Experience
3. Statistics
4. Research/Testimony
5. Obesrvation
6. Description
7. Anecdote (story)
8. Analgoy (compare) |
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Format (Topic + SEE + Clincher)
Topic Sentence
First Statement (S)
Explain, Example (EE)
Second Statement (S)
Exaplain, Example (EE)
Clincher (reflects back to topic) |
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| Reference (type of Transitions) |
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Pronouns used to refer to place,person
Repeated words from previous sentence
synonyms of word used previously
restated thoughts
Example: Tom went to the movies. HE ate popcorn. |
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| Connectives (type of transition) |
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| words that connect thought: likewise, in addition, then, on the other hand, to sum up |
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| Bridge (type of Transition) |
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| Connects paragraphs. Usually paragraph ends and next paragraph repeats words from previous paragraph's ending... |
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1. Introduce thesis "Funnel"
2. Ask a question
3. Show benefit to be gained
4. Begin with humor or unexpected
5. Begin with quote or saying
6. Begin with dialogue
7. Relate a story or paint a picture |
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| Ask a questions (Introduction) |
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| Perks reader's interest so they'll keep reading |
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| Show benefit (Introduction) |
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| Shows readers what's in it for them - entices them to read essay |
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| Unexpected/Humorous (Introduction) |
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| breaks down natural resistance to subject |
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| Quotation/Saying (Introduction) |
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| Pulls reader in with familiar saying |
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| Repeats conversation - friendly intro |
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| Story/Paint Picture (Introduction) |
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| Quickly captures reader's attention |
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Grab reader's attention
Introduce your topic |
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| Problems with Introductions |
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1.Omitting them (not having one)
2.Jumping the Gun(write examples here)
3.DULL |
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1. Wraps everything up
2. Suggests course of action
3. Emphasizes most important of essay
4. Tie up loose ends |
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1. Revisit thesis
2. Answer or ask question
3. Show benefit gained
4. End humorous or unexpected
5. Suggest course of action
6. End with quote or saying
7. Finish the basic story |
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| Problems with Conclusions |
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1. Omitting them
2. Piling too much information in |
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| Revisit Thesis Statement (Conclusion) |
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| States main points of essay |
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| Answer/Ask Question (Conclusion) |
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| If you started w/ question, answer it in your conclusion |
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| Benefit Gained (Conclusion) |
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| Refer to benefit gained and how |
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| Unexpected/humorous (Conclusion) |
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| Make reader smile, he'll remember your point |
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| Suggested Course of Action (Conclusion) |
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| Tell readers what to do with knowledge they gained by reading the essay |
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| Quotation/Familiar Saying (Conclusion) |
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| Provides transition back to real world |
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| Finish Story (Conclusion) |
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| End your story that you started in Introduction |
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1. Universal - being to broad
2. Superlative - best/worse don't use
3. Hyperbole - exaggerating |
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| Helps with cause and effect essays.. If you do _____, this will happen |
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| Parallelism and Order Thesis Statement |
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Lists reasons for thesis statement..
Example: Curfews infringe on freedom of minors, waste money, and prove ineffective. |
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| It's what your writing assignment comes from..it's the queion or topic of the paper |
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1. Answers the prompt
2. takes a specific position
3. Passes the how and why test
4. Provide enough focus |
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S - Statement
E - Explanation
E - Example |
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Subject and Predicate
The boys and girls//ate sandwiches. |
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Actual Name (capitalized)
Paris, Oak Tree, Texas, Shirley |
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General Name (not capitalized)
country, state, tree, boy |
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More than one:
horse - horses
factory - factories
deer - deer
wolf - wolves
potato - potatoes |
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| Letters make a hissing sound (s, sh, ch, x, z) |
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goose - geese
mouse - mice
foot - feet
man - men |
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| Person, place, thing, idea |
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Shows ownership
Singular Noun (1 of something) add 's
dog - dog's
church - church's
Jesus - Jesus's |
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Shows ownership
Plural Noun (more than 1) add '
dogs - dogs'
men - men's
churches - churches'
feet - feet's |
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When listing two people owning...
Brina and Cayenne's dog.
Mom and Dad's money. |
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| Suffix = diminutive endings |
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Add word to end of another word
friend - friendship |
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Means Little: kin, ling, ette, let, ie, y
example - duck-ling |
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Means one who: an, ar, er, or, ist, ite
example - play-er |
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Means state, condition, quality of:
dom, hood, ion, ism, ment, ness, ship, ty
example - knight-hood |
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The beautiful dog under the house was eating lobster.
Simple Subject - dog
Complete Subject - the beautiful dog under the house |
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The beautiful dog under the house was eating lobster.
Predicate - was eating lobster
Verb - was eating |
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| Let's ________ (it). Fill blank in with word to see if it fits...verb. |
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| She/it seemed _____________. Fill blank in with word to see if it fits...adjective |
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1st Person speaking: I, me, we, others
2nd Person spoken to: you
3rd Person spoken about: he, her, them, it, and others |
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| is a function word used to glue other words together |
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state of being verbs:
be, look, act, become, appear, grow, remain, taste, seem, smell, sound, feel |
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begins with a preposition.
Example: The dog under the house was eating lobster.
---under the house is the Prep. Phrase |
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