Spring Final Exam

To think of ideas/thoughts without judgment usually begins at the start of the writing:

• Brainstorming

• Hook

• Writing an Essay

• Revising

A brief statement or account of the main points of something

• paraphrase

• summarize

• main idea

provide information to clarify, prove, or explain the main idea

• supporting details

• main idea

a rewording of something written or spoken by someone else

• summarize

• paraphrase

usually the first sentence in your body paragraph indicates what the paragraph will be about

• topic sentence

• concluding sentence

• example

• hook

is used as a means of convincing an audience via the authority or credibility of the persuaded, be it a notable or experienced figure in the field or even a popular celebrity

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos

facts, documentation or testimony used to strengthen a claim, support an argument or reach a conclusion

• evidence

• main idea

• supporting details

• summarize

something invented by the imagination or feigned specifically: an invented story

• fiction

• nonfiction

the parts of something written or spoken that immediately precede and follow a word or passage and clarify its meaning

• transition words

• context

They show your reader the relationship between phrases, sentences, or even paragraphs

• transition word

• context