8th Grade Midterm Review

What are the four questions you should ask yourself whenever you receive a new writing prompt?

• Who is the audience?

• What is the thesis?

• What is the topic?

• What is the purpose?

• What is the form?

What are some common purposes for writing? List three.

What are the three main parts of a well-organized paper?

• beginning, middle, and end

• introduction, body, and conclusion

• first paragraph, second paragraph, third paragraph

• outline, rough draft, final draft

What part of an essay is the beginning of your paper, which grabs the reader’s attention with an engaging opening, states the subject clearly, lets the reader know what to expect, and is a single paragraph?

• Introduction

• Body

• Conclusion

• Outline

Which part of the essay is the middle of your paper, gives the main points of the paper, along with supporting details of those main points, and usually contains several paragraphs?

• introduction

• body

• conclusion

• outline

What part of the paper is the end of your paper, finishes the paper by tying up all the main points into a single closing idea, and is usually one paragraph long.

• introduction

• body

• conclusion

• outline

An outline...

• is a formal way of organizing your ideas.

• helps you figure out what should go in the introduction, body, and conclusion of your paper.

• helps you when you begin to draft by letting you stop thinking about organization and start concentrating on using the right words.

• is several paragraphs

What step comes before writing your first draft?

• revising

• editing

• outlining

• peer editing

When you write with a ____________ voice, you closely follow the rules of the English language and show respect.

• formal

• informal

When you use your _______________ voice, you are using relaxed, everyday language.

• formal

• informal