Writing Terms

Concise

• When you explain something in great detail.

• When you explain something with evidence.

• When you explain something clearly in a few words.

• When you explain something to someone who already understands it.

The 1st version of your writing.

• Prewrite

• Edit

• Final Draft

• Draft

The best version of your writing.

• Final Draft

• Edit

• Draft

• Revise

To leave out or take out.

• Edit

• Omit

• Removal

• Potato

Prewrite

• The last edit on your writing before the final draft.

• The first part of revising your writing.

• The act of editing and reading your writing.

• The organizing of your thoughts before you write.

Proofread

• Reading to look for errors and make corrections.

• Reading your writing to look for proof and quotes.

• Reading something for proof that it was written by you.

• Reading your paper to look for proof of life on mars.

To change the position of words, phrases, or paragraphs to improve the meaning of your writing.

• Repeat

• Revise

• Rearrange

• Revamp

To make changes to your draft to improve your writing (making edits).

• Revise

• Recycle

• Revamp

• Recede

Thesaurus

• A place to find synonyms

• A place to find antonyms

• A place to find potatoes

• A dinosaur...rawr

A word of passage that connects two topics or ideas

• Connecting word

• Conjunction

• Transforming Word

• Transition