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| a brief entertaining story based on a single interesting or humorous incident or event |
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| one or more paragraphs comprised of details, facts, and examples that support the main idea |
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| order- the order in which events happen in time (sequence of events) |
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| the last section of a communication |
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| paragraph that completes a composition and reinforces its main idea |
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| invention stage of the writing process in which the writer plans for drafting based on the subject, audience, occasion, and purpose for writing |
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| stage of the writing process in which the writer expresses ideas in sentences, forming a beginning, a middle, and am ending in a composition |
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| gives strength to the main idea of a paragraph or essay |
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| a brief, punchy opening statement intended to draw the reader or viewer into a book or play |
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| text structures found in all types of nonfiction (and some fiction); the building blocks that serve every writing purpose- informative, expository, argumentative, or persuasive. |
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| writing that tries to change a person or group’s viewpoint or opinions |
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| type of oral or written discourse that is used to explain, describe, give information, or inform. |
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| a statement or group of statements about a specific topic, constructed to motivate students’ thoughts and elicit their best writing. |
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| stage in the writing process in which the writer rethinks what is written and reworks it to increase clarity, smoothness, and power |
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| language that appeals to a reader’s five senses; hearing, sight, touch, taste, and smell |
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| correcting mistakes in punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and/or usage |
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| addition of explanatory or decisive information to a piece of writing, such as supporting details, examples, facts, and descriptions |
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| first paragraph of a composition that catches the reader’s attention and states the main idea |
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| a sentence that states the main idea of a paragraph |
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| a proposed explanation, theory |
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| recursive stages that a writer proceeds through in his or her own way when developing ideas and discovering the best way to express them. prewriting, drafting, revise/edit, proofread, publish |
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