Term | Definition |
Two parts of a topic sentence | (1) a topic and (2) a controlling idea |
identify the type of writing: illustration and description | description is detail that involve all five physical senses. Illustrations are abstract ideas. |
Chronological order | items, events, or even ideas are arranged in the order in which they occur |
Spatial Order | n this pattern, items are arranged according to their physical position or relationships. Top to bottom |
climactic order | items are arranged from least important to most important |
Purpose | The reason the writer composes the paragraph. |
Tone | The attitude the writer conveys about the paragraph’s subject. |
Audience | The individual or group whom the writer intends to address. |
point of view | refers to his or her position on an
issue or, in other words, the author’s opinion or belief regarding an issue. |
5 stages in the writing process | prewriting, writing, revising, editing, publishing |
prewriting techniques. | freewriting, clustering, mapping, questioning, brainstorming |
good writing techniques | 5 senses, be specific, use comparisions, similes, metophores. Eliminate fluff words |
pronoun agreement | A pronoun usually refers to something earlier in the text (its antecedent) and must agree in number — singular/plural — with the thing to which it refers |