Informative Writing and HOW to Research

Informative Writing, Research, and Planning

Multiple Choice

What do they call the attention grabbing sentence in the introduction?

• Hook

• Introduction

• The attention seeker

• Grabber

Multiple Choice

What should text evidence be inside of?

• Quotations

• Parentheses

• Commas

• Apostrophes

​What makes a source RELIABLE WHEN RESEARCHING?

​- Is Google Scholar good?

​- What about blog posts?

​- How many sources

should you find?

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Multiple Choice

What's the purpose of an informative essay?

• To persuade the reader.

• To tell a story. 

• To entertain the readers.

• To provide information, or explain steps in a process. 

Open Ended

Do you think Wikipedia is a good resource to use when researching a person or topic?

Multiple Select

Which of the following would be good places to review for research information?

• Google Scholar

• Articles written by experts with many sources to back up their claim

• History Buff Blog

• The first result on google

Multiple Choice

When starting to plan an essay what should be the VERY FIRST thing you do?

• Make my document to plan my essay

• Look at the exemplar essay

• Read the prompt

• Review what my choices are for writing the essay

Multiple Choice

What does RELEVANT evidence mean?

• Opinion based

• Professional sounding

• Related and connected

• Interesting

Multiple Choice

What does sufficient evidence mean?

• Professional

• Enough

• One piece

• From Wikipedia

Multiple Select

Today we are working on your detailed outline, what should you have by the end of the class?

• A completed introduction

• The majority of your body outline completed and the start of your works cited page

• An entire finished essay

• Nothing