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Essay Writing
7th Grade Essay Writing Terms
Question | Answer |
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An essay that is a personal story about a time in your life | Narrative Writing |
An essay that explains or informs a reader about a topic or question | Expository Writing |
An essay that tries to convince a reader of a particular viewpoint | Persuasive Writing |
Prewriting, Drafting, Editing, Revising, Publishing | Writing Process |
Decide on a topic, an audience, and gather information | Prewriting |
Use your prewriting and write in complete sentences while not worrying about mistakes | Drafting |
Adding details and ideas; deleting off-topic information; rearranging sentences | Revising |
Looking for grammar and spelling errors, punctuation, and captitalization | Editing |
Final Draft and/or Presentation | Publishing |
When you look at your own mistakes in an essay, just before you begin a final draft | Self-Editing/Revision |
When you have a friend or classmate look at your essay for mistakes and off-topic information | Peer Editing/Revision |
A step in the prewriting where you organize your information into categories so you can begin a rough draft | Outline |