Essay Parts: RTLs and Arguments

What is argument writing?

• a story told as a series of events, with characters, settings, and themes
• a presentation of ideas by informing and explaining
• a disagreement, trying to convince on a topic with opposing views
• a restatement of a text to clarify meanings

Tags

CCSS.W.7.1A

CCSS.W.7.1B

CCSS.W.7.1C

CCSS.W.7.1E

What is coherence?

• a sentence that states the main idea of an essay
• the idea of your writing being focused on one thing
• linking sentences and paragraphs to flow smoothly with transitions
• an identified source in an essay

What is an essay?

• a piece of writing done as a test
• a group of related sentences
• a paragraph which makes and supports a claim
• a composition with three or more related paragraphs

What is unity?

• the smooth flowing of ideas using transition words and phrases
• the idea that all parts of the writing should be focused on one topic
• the first paragraph of an essay
• the first few sentences, meant to catch a reader's interest

What is a claim?

• a sentence that states your opinion or point of view
• sentences that support your ideas with facts and evidence
• writing to convince or persuade someone of something
• the part of an introduction that gets the reader interested

What is an introduction?

• the last paragraph of an essay
• the first sentence of a paragraph
• the first paragraph of an essay
• the last sentence of a paragraph

What is a hook?

• a word of phrase to link ideas together smoothly
• the first paragraph of an essay
• the statement of title, author, and genre in an RTL
• a sentence to catch the readers attention

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What is the body?

• the middle paragraphs of an essay
• the first paragraph of an essay
• the middle sentences of a paragraph
• the last sentences of an essay

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.W.7.2B

What is a TAG statement?

• a statement of your opinion in an argument
• the hook of an introduction
• the last sentence of the introduction
• a sentence which gives the title, author, and genre in a response to literature

What is a conclusion?

• the last sentence of a paragraph
• the last paragraph of an essay
• the first sentence of an essay
• the first paragraph of an argument