ESSAY

The four stages to make an essay are as follows:

• brainstorming, clustering, free writing, and questioning.
• exploring, designing, checking and writing.
• exploring, developing, revising, and editing.
• examining, processing, verifying, and editing.

It is like drawing a word map; ideas are arranged in a visual image.

• Brainstorming
• Clustering
• Free writing
• Questioning

It is like free writing except that you create a list of ideas.

• Brainstorming
• Clustering
• Freewriting
• Questioning

Which of these four options do not belong to the EXPLORING stage?

• Topic
• Audience
• Technique
• Strategy

It is a series of sentences that are about one central idea. 

• Paragraph
• Essay
• Topic sentence
• Thesis Statement

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.K.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

It is a series of paragraphs that are about one central idea.

• Supporting detail
• Paragraph 
• Topic sentence
• Essay

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

The ____________ introduces the topic of the essay and arouses the interest of the reader.

• topic sentence
• concluding sentence
• thesis statement
• supporting details

Tags

CCSS.W.5.1A

CCSS.W.5.2A

The ______________ introduces the subject of the paragraph and shows the writer’s attitude toward the subject.

• topic sentence
• thesis statement
• body paragraph
• concluding sentence

There are three common types of lead-ins:

• quotation, question, and provocative statement.
• prediction, suggestion, and quotation.
• statistics, anecdote, and expert opinion
• example, personification, and quote.

To make your conclusion more interesting and original, you could close with:

• examples, statistics, anecdotes, expert opinions.
• examples, personifications, quotes.
• predictions, suggestions, calls to action,  quotations.
• quotations, questions, provocative statements.