Formal Writing Vocabulary

following accepted rules for doing something; proper, legal, or official. 

1. having a relaxed, friendly, or unofficial style, manner, or nature.

Tags

CCSS.SL.5.6

CCSS.SL.6.6

CCSS.SL.7.6

CCSS.W.6.1D

CCSS.W.6.2E

 a manner of writing that is objective, states main points and then supports those points with arguments. Formal writing is less emotional and colloquial than more formal writing.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

to start a line of text or to position further from the margin than the main part of the text.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

 the forming of words from letters according to accepted usage.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

1.  the action of writing or printing in capital letters or with an initial capital. 

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

1.   the marks used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

1.  1. not or no longer needed or useful; superfluous.  2. able to be omitted without loss of meaning or function. 

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

a way of describing a point of view in which the narrator is the person in the story, telling the story  from his/her own point of view.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

1.  a way of describing a point of view in which a person or people are being addressed by a writer or speaker.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D