Adding Details to Writing

What is the most effective way to combine sentences 16 & 17? The question is asking us to...

• Select an answer that makes sense

• Select the best answer that makes sense

• Select only the answer with a conjunction

Where is the best place to insert this sentence? What is the question asking you to do?

• Look for the sentence and remove it from the essay

• Add the sentence to the beginning of the essay

• Add the sentence to the end of the essay

• Add the sentence to the paragraph where it would make the most sense

Editing...

• fixing spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and sentence structures

• fixing word choice, adding transition words, combining sentences, and adding or moving essay details

Regina would like to add a topic sentence to the beginning of the 4th paragraph. What should the topic sentence include?

• It should repeat what the previous paragraph stated

• It should summarize the entire essay

• It should introduce what paragraph 4 is mostly about

Which sentence should be added after sentence 7 to provide the best supporting details?

• Theaters that hold between 100 and 499 people are designated Off-Broadway theaters.

• Today theater performances may occur in buildings or even in Central Park.

• Theaters with over 1,000 seats are sometimes known as auditoriums.

• Today City Hall is used primarily for government work.

Details that explain, define or prove the main idea of a writing piece.

• support

• evidence

• transitions

• answer

Adding more specific details to an explanation or an example to help the reader understand the writer’s ideas.

• explain

• restate

• summary

• elaborate

After citing evidence from the text, _____________ how the evidence supports your answer.

• transition

• elaborate

• explain

• answer

Words or phrases that link ideas to help writing flow more smoothly.

• verbs

• support

• transitions

• lead-in

What do you need around a quote?

• parantheses

• commas

• quotation marks

• nothing