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Writing Process

Subject : writing-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The writer shows the relationship between events and their results






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






3. Performing speeches - plays - videos; making a speech - participating in debate; creating booklets - brochures - family scrapbooks - or personal web pages; publishing a school newspaper - magazine - or portfolio; submitting work for publication beyon






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






5. Speech or written form in which one sets forth to convince






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






7. Your assertion that conveys your point of view






8. Examples of student's essays - created to organize and explain their selections for end-of-term writing; reveals how much students learn from such reflection; careful attention to students reflections invites instructors to change their approach so t






9. Acting a referee; evaluating a colleague's work professionally






10. Repeats another's words exactly and encloses them in quotation marks






11. Age - gender - ethic backgrounds - political philosophies - religious beliefs - roles (student - parent - voter - wage earner - property owner - veteran) - interests hobbies - level of education - amount of general or specialized knowledge about the






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






13. Salinger - J. D. (1945) 'The Catcher in the Rye.' New York: Little - Brown and Company.






14. Type of argument in which the author appeals to the readers emotions (fear - security - pity - flattery) to prove the argument






15. Chronological order - classification - illustration - climax - location - comparison - cause and effect






16. Impressionistic; method based on theory that a whole piece of writing is greater than the sum of its parts; essays are read for a total impression they create - rather than individual aspects; grammar - spelling - and organization should not be consi






17. Writing nonstop about anything






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






19. 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






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






21. Topic that you are discussing






22. The overall feeling created in a piece of writing






23. Part of your writing that is established by what you say and how you say it






24. The writer explains the relationship between terms and concepts






25. Dictionaries - encyclopedias - writers' reference handbooks - books of lists - almanacs - thesauruses - books of quotations - and so on






26. Listing all the ideas that come to mind associated with the topic






27. The 'going public' stage of writing






28. 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






29. Use of contrasting ideas to communicate a message






30. Gathering ideas onto paper in sentences and paragraphs






31. Vague words are avoided






32. 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






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






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






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






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






37. Salinger - J.D. 'The Catcher in the Rye.' New York: Little - Brown - and Company - 1945.






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






39. This is the stage of writing that involves rewriting or 're-seeing;' emphasis is place on examining sentence structure - word choice - voice - and organization of the piece






40. To express yourself - to inform a reader - to persuade a reader - to create a literary work






41. Creative - expository - persuasive - argumentative






42. 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






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






44. The way the an author uses words - phrases - and sentences to formulate ideas






45. A following of one thing after another (key words: after - next - afterward - during - preceding - finally - immediately - first - later - now)






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






47. 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






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






49. In this stage - you begin writing - connecting - and developing ideas






50. Informs the reader of the problem and suggests action to remedy problem (similar to a persuasive argument paper)