Writing Review

Read the excerpt of this student’s paper about a child hero and look for any corrections that need to be made. (1) How could a child be so brave? (2) Why had Hao risked his own life to save his fellow students? (3) Where was this courageous boy’s Mother? (4) When reporters questioned the young boy, Hao answered “I was the hall monitor. (5) It was my job to look after my classmates.” What change needs to be made in sentence 4?

• Change questioned to question

• Remove the comma after boy

• Change Hao to hao

• Insert a comma after answered

(1) Just a few months earlier, on May 12, 2008, Hao had been in his classroom on a typical day at school. (2) Without warning the ground beneath him began to tremble. (3) Hao’s school in the town of Yingxiu was at the very heart of an earthquake. (4) Windows shattered, shelves began toppling over, and the floor lost it’s stability. (5) Finally the whole building collapsed. (6) Hao somehow managed to climb out of the rubble and save himself two of his classmates, and others who were trapped.

What changes need to be made in sentence 4?

• Remove the comma after shattered

• Change shelves to shelfs

• Change it’s to its

• No change is needed.

The first sentence of an essay is called the 

• hook

• clincher

• thesis statement

What do you call the paragraphs where key ideas are developed and explained?

• Introductions

• Body Paragraphs

• Key Paragraphs

• Conclusions

How many body paragraphs should a formal essay have?

• One

• Two

• Three

• Four

A thesis statement is

• any detail that appeals to your senses.

• a sentence that tells what your entire essay is about.

• any detail that supports the topic sentence.

• how you draw your reader into your essay.

The  thesis statement should be the ____ sentence in the introduction.

• first

• second

• third

• last

How many sentences should each paragraph include?

• 2

• 43

• 3-5

• 9 or more

The last sentence of a paragraph is called the 

• hook

• intro. 

• clincher

• topic sentence

The three parts of a body paragraph are 

• topic sentence, clincher, conclusion

• topic sentence, 3 details/examples, clincher

• power statement, thesis, conclusion