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Writing Process

Subject : writing-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The 'going public' stage of writing






2. A detailed statement of someone else's statement expressed in your own words and your own sentence structure






3. Either to give your reader information or to persuade your readers to agree with you






4. Reference works - internet - student-created sources - other






5. Speech or written form in which one expresses thoughts and feelings with imagination and creativity






6. Toulman's model of arguement






7. Introductory paragraph - thesis statement - background information - reasons or evidence - anticipation of like objections and responses to them - concluding paragraph






8. Is a metaphor (a comparison of two unlike things) used throughout a work or over a series of lines in prose or poetry






9. Introductory paragraph - thesis statement - background information - points of discussion - concluding paragraph






10. Be logical - enlist the emotions of the reader - establish credibility






11. The overall feeling created in a piece of writing






12. Used to show similarities and differences (key words: although - but - still - yet - compared with - as opposed to - different from - either/or - neither/nor - in common - similarly






13. A sentence stating your topic and the point you want to make about it






14. The writer shows order of time or the steps in a process






15. Gathering ideas onto paper in sentences and paragraphs






16. Personal writing - workplace writing - subject writing - creative writing - persuasive writing - and scholarly writing






17. Is to present another person's words or ideas as if they were your own






18. Composed of educated - experienced readers - people who read newspapers - magazines - and books






19. Use of contrasting ideas to communicate a message






20. Writing interviews - accounts - profiles - or descriptions to capture the meaning of the subject being written about






21. Can overstate or understate a fact; can cause skepticism; undermine the writer's authority; (key words: all - everyone - always - many - never - nobody); creates inaccuracies; can produce false statements






22. This stage involves checking for style and conventions--spelling - grammar - usage - and punctuation






23. Are comparison of two pairs that have the same relationship






24. Style - tone - point of view - sarcasm - counterpoints - praise






25. The writer explains the relationship between terms and concepts






26. Spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)






27. The perspective from which a piece is written; first person - third person - omniscient - limited omniscient






28. Can be used in a group work to assist writers in raising their awareness about the quality of their contributions to the group; part of any writing assignment to summarize strengths and weaknesses they see in their writing






29. Calls for you to read your final copy for typing errors or handwriting legibility






30. A book - article - videotape - or any other form of communication






31. Writers can express their innermost thoughts - feelings - and responses through a variety of personal writing - including journal writing - diaries - logs - personal narratives - and personal essays






32. A pictorial way of constructing knowledge and organizing information; they help the student convert and compress a lot of seemingly disjointed information into a structured - simple-to-read - graphic display; the resulting visual display conveys comp






33. Descriptive scoring schemes that are developed by teachers and other evaluators to guide analysis of the products or process of a a students efforts; scoring requires certain criteria to be met; example: (3) meets expectation (2) adequate (1) needs i






34. A condensed statement of main points of someone else's passage expressed in your own words and sentence structure






35. The exact words of a source set off in quotation marks






36. Writing nonstop about anything






37. Who? what? when? where? why? how?






38. A memory device to check for specific - concrete details: reason - examples - names - numbers - senses (sight - sound - smell - taste - touch)






39. This stage of the writing process involve gathering and selecting ideas; teachers can help students in several ways: creating lists - researching - brainstorming -reading to discover more about the author's style - talking - collecting memorabilia or






40. Students learn rhetorical strategies to persuade others - such as by writing editorials - arguments - commentaries - and advertisements






41. Online: dictionaries - encyclopedias - writers' reference handbooks - books of lists - almanacs - thesauruses - books of quotations - and so on; various search engines and portals to gather ideas and information






42. Flm - art - media - and so on






43. Topic that you are discussing






44. Use of positive messages to recognize or influence others






45. The writer describes a person - place - or thing and organizes it in the description in a logical manner






46. The writer shows the relationship between events and their results






47. Achieved when all parts of the essay relate to the thesis statement and to each other






48. The details are stated first - followed by a topic sentence






49. Also called clustering and webbing; more visual and less linear






50. Often called composing; putting together the ideas to create a composition