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Paraphrase - Answer-Restating ideas in a reading in your own words Summary - Answer-Giving the main points of a reading in your own words quotation - Answer-Restarting words in a reading Personal response - Answer-A response to how someone feels personally to a writing Critical Reading - Answer-A type of reading in which the reader evaluates or judges the accuracy and truthfulness of content. Inference - Answer-A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning Synthes...

MLA regulates - Answer-document format, in-text citations, works-cited list The three guiding principles to cite any source are - Answer-cite simple traits shared by most works, remember that there is more than one way to cite a source, and make your documentation useful to readers what is the spacing in mla format? - Answer-double what font and size? - Answer-times new roman size 12 how many spaces after punctuation? - Answer-one all margins should be set to what on each side? - ...

Reading Assumptions - Answer-Assumptions one makes based on one's background including: Nationality, Ethnic culture, Geographic, Knowledge/education, and Experience. Writing Limits - Answer-Length, purpose, audience, occasion, knowledge Writing Purposes - Answer-to express, inform, or persuade the reader Forms of Arrangement - Answer-Narration, Description, Exemplification, Process, Cause and Effect, Comparison and Contrast, Classification and Division, Definition Grabber Method - A...

What is an effective argument? - Answer-An argument that attempts to change people's minds and influence their actions by convincing them of the validity of new ideas or the superiority of a particular course of action What are the nine steps writers are expected to do in written arguments? - Answer--state explicit claims -support claims with reasons -base reasons on evidence -consider opposing positions -analyze insight -investigate complexity -organize information clearly -signal re...

think about your role - Answer-who are you writing as focus on your subject - Answer-1. use your outline, writing plan, or diagram 2. Write freely 3. include as much detail as possible 4. complete your first draft(in one or two sittings) 5. use the most natural voice you can 6. quote sources accurately reconsider your purpose - Answer-1. what you want your writing to do (your task) 2. what you want it to say (your thesis) 3. how you want to say it(list of ideas or outline) reco...

There are strategies for using definitions in writing that suit the rhetorical situation. List the 3 kinds of definition - Answer-Extended Definition, Stipulative Definition, and Formal Definition. True or False? Formal definitions are good when using technical terms that the readers are unlikely to know. - Answer-True True or False? Some strategies to consider when writing an extended definition include exploring word origin or using comparisons. - Answer-True True or False? Stipulate ...

Noun - Answer-Name a person, a thing, a quality(pain mystery, simplicity), a place, or an idea(reality, peace, success) Common noun - Answer-Names a general class of things and does not begin with a capital letter: earthquake, citizen, earth, fortitude, army Proper noun - Answer-Names a specific person, place, or thing and begins with a capital letter: Angelina Jolie, Washington, Monument, El Paso, US Congress Count noun - Answer-Names a thing considered countable in English (add -s or ...

Dependent clause - Answer-A phrase that can't stand alone as a complete sentence. Fragment - Answer-A dependent clause that is punctuated like a sentence Independent clause - Answer-A phrase that can stand by itself as a sentence Comma splice - Answer-A comma to join 2 sentences together (run-on) Fused sentence - Answer-Join 2 independent clauses with no punctation (run-on) Subject/verb agreement - Answer-must agree in number Simple sentence - Answer-A sentence consisting of o...

Choose the proper punctuation to fill the blank in the sentence below. - Answer- Two types of connecting words are - Answer-prepositions and conjunctions A writer notices that her last thought is her best one and makes the difficult decision to reorganize the whole essay around this idea. She is in the ______ step of the writing process. - Answer-revising After developing ideas, you need to ______ how those ideas will relate to each other and what the main point will be. - Answer-plan ...

Conjunction - Answer-FANBOYS- For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so Noun - Answer-Person, place or thing Subordinating conjunctions - Answer-Conjunctions that join dependent clauses to independent clauses. Ex: I will eat broccoli after I eat this cookie. Adverbs - Answer-Describe: how? when? where? to what extent? why? Direct Object - Answer-Receives the action of the transitive verb. Ex: Alice poured the *lemonade* Proper Nouns - Answer-Name *specific* places, people, or ideas....