FSA Writing Review

What is the first thing you should do when you are given your test?

• Read the articles

• Unpack the prompt

• Plan

• Start writing your paper

What is a key phrase you need to look for to determine if the prompt is opinion?

• Compare the two

• What is the difference?

• What do you think?

• Explain the procedure of...

How many pieces of evidence must be cited in EACH body paragraph?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Immediately after you cite evidence from the text you MUST...

• elaborate

• tell me a personal thought

• cite another piece of evidence

• start a new paragraph

How many paragraphs should your paper consist of?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

When you start a new paragraph, what should you do?

• skip multiple lines

• indent on the next clean line

• skip a line

• continue writing after the previous sentence

What key words should be included in your elaboration sentence?

• the author says...

• the text says...

• this proves that...

• in my opinion...

When you are using text evidence you should ALWAYS

• Give credit to the author by saying "the text says..."

• Copy the text word for word the entire paragraph

• Use more than one source in your body paragraphs

• Make sure to name what source and which paragraph it came from

Words from the text should be....

• guessed

• spelled correctly

• spelled incorrectly

• sounded out the best that you can

Capital letters should only be...

• In the beginning of a sentence

• Throughout your writing

• When using proper nouns

• Whenever you feel like it