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| 4968811107 | invention/prewriting | stage of writing where you discover what interests you about your subject and consider what ideas to develop in your essay | 0 | |
| 4968814160 | purpose | a writer's reason for writing | 1 | |
| 4968814161 | expressive writing | convey personal feelings or impressions to readers | 2 | |
| 4968814162 | informative writing | inform readers about something | 3 | |
| 4968814794 | persuasive writing | try to convince readers to act or think in a certain way | 4 | |
| 4968814795 | audience | the people "listening" to a writer's words | 5 | |
| 4968815618 | occasion | the situation that leads someone to write about a topic | 6 | |
| 4968817847 | general subject | a topic that needs to be narrowed | 7 | |
| 4968817848 | specific topic | a topic that fits the purpose and length of an essay | 8 | |
| 4968818673 | questions for probing | asking questions about a topic to move from a general subject to a specific topic | 9 | |
| 4968910289 | freewriting | write for a fixed period of time without stopping and without paying attention to spelling, grammar, or punctuation | 10 | |
| 4968820112 | focused freewriting/looping | writing for a fixed period of time without stopping on a specific topic | 11 | |
| 4968820113 | brainstorming | a way of discovering ideas about a topic | 12 | |
| 4968820919 | journal writing | a method of invention that involves recording ideas that emerge from reading or other experiences and then exploring them in writing | 13 | |
| 4968820920 | clustering | a way of visually arranging ideas so that you can tell at a glance where ideas belong and whether or not you need more information | 14 | |
| 4968821618 | informal outline | does not include all major divisions and subdivisions of an essay, simply suggests the shape of an emerging essay | 15 | |
| 4968821619 | thesis | the main idea of an essay, its central point | 16 | |
| 4968821620 | introduction | an essay's opening | 17 | |
| 4968821642 | body paragraphs | the paragraphs that develop and support an essay's thesis | 18 | |
| 4968822402 | conclusion | the group of sentences or paragraphs that brings an essay to a close | 19 | |
| 4968824096 | implied thesis | conveys an essay's purpose but does not do so explicitly | 20 | |
| 4968825471 | narration | tells a story by presenting events in an orderly, logical sequence | 21 | |
| 4968825472 | chronological order | the time sequence of events | 22 | |
| 4968826328 | flashbacks | shifts into the past | 23 | |
| 4968826329 | verb tense | indicate time | 24 | |
| 4968827339 | transitions | words or expressions that link ideas in a piece of writing | 25 | |
| 4968828110 | cliche | an overused expression | 26 | |
| 4968829136 | description | presents a word picture of a thing, a person, a situation, or a series of events | 27 | |
| 4968829137 | topic sentence | a sentence stating the main idea of a paragraph | 28 | |
| 4968829915 | objective description | a detached, factual picture presented in a plain and direct manner | 29 | |
| 4968829916 | visuals | diagrams, drawings, photographs, etc., that accompany an objective description | 30 | |
| 4968830700 | subjective description | conveys the writer's personal response to a subject | 31 | |
| 4968830701 | connotation | emotional associations with a word | 32 | |
| 4968830702 | denotation | dictionary definition of a word | 33 | |
| 4968830703 | figures of speech | striking phrases or vivid language that deliberately provokes the reader's imagination | 34 | |
| 4968831924 | simile | uses "like" or "as" to compare two dissimilar things | 35 | |
| 4968831925 | metaphor | compares two dissimilar things without using "like" or "as" | 36 | |
| 4968831926 | personification | speaks of concepts or objects as if they had life or human characteristics | 37 | |
| 4968831927 | allusion | a reference to a person, place, event, or quotation that the writer assumes readers will recognize | 38 | |
| 4968832921 | dominant impression | the mood or quality emphasized in the piece of writing | 39 | |
| 4968835401 | exemplification | to illustrate or explain a general point or an abstract concept | 40 | |
| 4968838941 | in order of increasing complexity | beginning with the simplest and moving to the most difficult or complex | 41 | |
| 4968839988 | in order of importance | beginning with those that are less significant and moving to those that are most significant or persuasive | 42 | |
| 4968847187 | process | explains how to do something or how something occurs | 43 | |
| 4968850736 | cause and effect | analyzes why something happens | 44 | |
| 4968852707 | main cause | most important cause | 45 | |
| 4968852708 | contributory cuase | less important cause | 46 | |
| 4968853515 | immediate cause | an obvious reason for an event, situation, or phenomenon | 47 | |
| 4968855238 | remote cause | a less obvious reason for an event, situation, or phenomenon | 48 | |
| 4968855239 | post hoc reasoning | a logical fallacy that involves looking back at two events that occurred in chronological sequence and wrongly assuming that the first event caused the second | 49 | |
| 4968857890 | comparison and contrast | shows how two or more things are similar and different | 50 | |
| 4968858605 | analogy | explains one thing by comparing it to a second, more familiar thing | 51 | |
| 4968860146 | basis for comparison | the two things being compared have enough in common to justify the comparison | 52 | |
| 4968862261 | subject by subject comparison | write separately about each subject but discuss the same points for both subjects | 53 | |
| 4968863782 | point by point comparison | make a point about one subject and then follow it with a comparable point about the other | 54 | |
| 4968864882 | transitional paragraphs | connect one part of an essay to another | 55 | |
| 4968868062 | transitional sentences | help readers move through the essay | 56 | |
| 4968869312 | division | the process of breaking a whole into parts | 57 | |
| 4968870306 | classification | the process of sorting individual items into categories | 58 | |
| 4968877084 | principle of classification | the quality the items have in common | 59 | |
| 4968879442 | definition | tells what a term means and how it differs from other terms in its class | 60 | |
| 4968880598 | formal definitions | brief, succinct explanations of what words mean | 61 | |
| 4968882562 | extended definitions | longer, more complex definition that explains what something or someone is, its essential nature | 62 | |
| 4968885247 | slang | informal expressions whose meanings may vary from locale to locale or change as time passes | 63 | |
| 4968889795 | synonyms | words with similar meanings | 64 | |
| 4968889796 | negation | telling what something is not | 65 | |
| 4968890519 | enumeration | listing the characteristics of something | 66 | |
| 4968891346 | origin and development | the word's derivation, original meaning, and usages | 67 |
