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Writing Process

Subject : writing-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Salinger - J.D. 'The Catcher in the Rye.' New York: Little - Brown - and Company - 1945.






2. Writing nonstop about anything






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






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






5. 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






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






7. When the essay supplies guideposts that communicate the relations among ideas






8. Number - letters - indentations signaling groups and levels of importance; each level has more than one entry; all subdivisions are at the same level of generality; headings don't overlap; only first word (and proper nouns) of each entry capitalize;






9. The overall feeling created in a piece of writing






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






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






12. Calls for you to consider ways to organize your material






13. Prewriting (also called planning or rehearsal) - shapping - drafting - revising - editing - proofreading and publishing






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






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






16. Use of contrasting ideas to communicate a message






17. Reports another's words without quotation marks except around words repeated exactly from the source






18. The particular group of readers or viewers that the writer is addressing






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






20. In this stage - the writer looks back at his/her work and self-evaluates - and the audience evaluates the effectiveness of the writing






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






22. Your assertion that conveys your point of view






23. Facts - data - and opinions of others used to support assertions and conclusions






24. State the essay smoothly - not abruptly - flowing logically from the rest of the essay






25. 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






26. The topic sentence is stated and then followed by the details






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






28. 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






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






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






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






32. The first sentence of the paragraph; it gives the reader an idea of what the paragraph is going to be about






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






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






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






36. Taking a draft from its preliminary to its final version by evaluating - adding - cutting - moving material - editing - and proofreading






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






38. Addition (also - in addition - too - moveover); example (for example - for instance - on the otherhand - nevertheless); contrast (but - yet - however - on the other hand); comparison (similarly - likewise - in the same way); concession (of course - t






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






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






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






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. 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






44. Creative - expository - persuasive - argumentative






45. 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






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






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






48. The 'going public' stage of writing






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






50. 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