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Writing Terminology

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  • 1. Writing Terminology

2. ESSAY

  • A piece of writing that gives your thoughts (commentary) about a subject.

3.

  • An essay consists of 4 parts:
  • Introduction
  • Two body paragraphs
  • Concluding paragraph

4. INTRODUCTION(INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH)

  • The first paragraph in an essay
  • Includes the thesis
  • Thesis is most often at the end.

5. BODY PARAGRAPH

  • A middle paragraph in an essay
  • Develops a point that supports thesis

6. CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH

    • Last paragraph in essay
    • Sums up, reflects on previous comments, gives more commentary or personal statement regarding subject

7. CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH DOES NOT:

    • Include concrete detail
    • Repeat key words from paper (especially from thesis or introduction)
    • However
    • It provides a finished feeling to essay

8. THESIS

  • Sentence with subject & opinion (commentary)
  • Located at the end of introductory paragraph

9. PRE-WRITING

  • The process of getting your concrete details on paper before you organize the essay into paragraphs

10. PRE-WRITING INCLUDES:

  • Bubble Clusters
  • Spider Diagrams
  • Outlines
  • Line Clustering
  • Columns

11. CONCRETE DETAILS (CD)

  • Specific details that form the backbone or core of your body paragraphs

12. SYNONYMS FORCONCRETE DETAILS (CD)

  • Facts
  • Specifics
  • Examples
  • Ilustrations
  • Support
  • Evidence

13.

  • Quotations
  • Paraphrasing

14. COMMENTARY (CM)

  • Your opinion or comment about something:not concrete detail.

15. SYNONYMS FOR COMMENTARY (CM)

  • Opinion
  • Insight
  • Analysis
  • Interpretation
  • Personal Response
  • Feelings

16.

  • Evaluation
  • Explication
  • Reflection

17. TOPIC SENTENCE

  • First sentence in a body paragraph
  • Must have a subject & opinion (cm) for the paragraph
  • It does the same thing for a body paragraph that the thesis does for the whole essay

18. CONCLUDING SENTENCE

  • Last sentence in a body paragraph
  • It is all commentary (cm)
  • Does not repeat key words
  • Gives finished feeling to paragraph

19. SHAPING THE ESSAY

  • Step completed after pre-writing & before the first draft
  • Functions as an outline for thesis,
  • topic sentences, concrete details, & commentary

20. FIRST DRAFT

  • The first version of your essay
  • (rough draft)

21. FINAL DRAFT

  • The final version of your essay

22. PEER RESPONSE

  • Written responses & reactions to a partners paper

23. CHUNK

  • The smallest unified group of thoughts that you can write & contains:
  • One sentence of CD
  • Two sentences of CM

24. WEAVING

  • Blending concrete details & commentary in a body paragraph
  • (comes after format mastery)

25. RATIO

  • The ratio of 1 part concrete detail (CD) to 2+ parts commentary (CM)
  • 1 CD : 2+ CM

26. WORD COUNTS

  • The minimum length per paragraph to earn a C.

27. CONFUSED?

  • Never fear
  • Mrs. Laurence is here!
  • (rhyming couplet)