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| Elements of a good paragraph: |
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Unity - sentence shows a clear connection to the topic
Completeness - enough explanation
Order - keep you sentences pointing in the same direction
Coherence - readers should be able to move easily from one sentence to the next |
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-act as bridges
-a roadmap for the rest of the paper
-makes readers want to read your paper |
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-restate & recommend
-predict
-allusion: short story to illustrate
-quote (expert) |
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| (Specific subject) + (specific condition) = (an effective thesis statement) |
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Three Essential Elements of a Good Thesis
Should be: |
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-RESTRICTED: limits scope of the essay
-UNIFIED: express a concise idea
-PRECISE: has only one interpretation - NO VAGUE WORDS |
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| -presents a single main idea expressed in a topic sentence |
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| Paragraphs Play an Important Role Organizing What? |
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| -play an important role in organizing essays |
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| What is a Topic Sentence? |
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| -explains what Paragraph is about |
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| What are Some of the Key Roles that Topic Sentences Serve in a Paragraph? |
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-makes a good general statement supported by the rest of the paper
-indicates what kind of detail the readers should expect in the Paragraph
-signal shifts in the writers change of thought
-dramatize a writers main points making it easy to read and remember |
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| What are the 4 types of evidence? |
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1. Facts
2. Testimony
3. Example
4. Statistics |
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| What must the evidence be? |
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-effective!
-accurate, reliable, suits the topic sentence, reader must be able to understand and accept it |
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| -excessive use of words that distract the reader from the point of writing |
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| -the repetition of the same idea that distracts the reader from the point of writing |
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| What shouldn’t you use to create an introduction? |
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-vague sentences to take up space
-a definition
-broad statements about the relevance of your topic sentence, “since the beginning of time”
-write, “in my/this paper” or, “in my opinion” |
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| What are the 8 parts of speech? |
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1. Noun
2. Pronoun
3. Adjective
4. Adverb
5. Verb
6. Preposition
7. Interjection
8. Conjunction |
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| When should you use a comma? |
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1. After items in a series
2. After introduction phrases/clauses
3. Set off an appositive
4. Set off parenthetical/transitional phrases
5. Join 2 independent clauses
6. Set off non-essential phrases
7. Dialogue
8. Direct address: “Hey, Buddy” |
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| When should you use a semicolon? |
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-in a series with commas: I have lived in Phoenix, AZ; Denver, CO; some weird, tropical place; and Alaska
-between two closely related independent clauses
-before conjunctive adverbs: I went to school; however, I didn’t want to. |
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| -giving human characteristics to a non-human thing |
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-the repetition of sounds
*consonance - repetition of consonant sounds
*alliteration - repetition of vowel sounds |
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| -a reasonable guess based on the information given |
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| What are the different points of view? |
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-First person: I, we, us
-Second person: Talking to you. (addressing the reader)
-Third person omniscient: He/She/They, knows everyone’s thoughts
-Third person limited: He/She/They, knows only what people say |
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| What is sensory language? |
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| -words that appeal to the senses |
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| -author’s attitude towards the subject |
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| -atmosphere; the general feeling of the piece |
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| When did he write it? (CBC) |
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| Pietermaritzburg, Natal, in the east of South Africa |
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| a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites |
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| When did it begin? (apartheid) |
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| When did it end? (apartheid) |
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