REVIEW (Lesson 2)

It is the controlling idea of your essay.

• Topic sentence

• Thesis statement

• Claim

• Introduction

These are visual representations of concepts that help us structure information into organizational patterns.

• Brainstorming list

• Graphic organizers

• Thesis statements

• Outlines

This helps you generate topics and narrow them down to a few important ideas.

• Brainstorming

• Graphic organizers

• Thesis statements

• Outlines

Key questions: Is it true or false/correct or incorrect/valid or invalid?

• Claim of Fact

• Claim of Value

• Claim of Policy

Key question: Should or should not be done?

• Claim of Fact

• Claim of Value

• Claim of Policy

Key questions: Is it good or bad, beneficial or detrimental, justified or unjustified, worthwhile or worthless, ethical or unethical?

• Claim of Fact

• Claim of Value

• Claim of Policy

A writer wants to create a storyline and highlight the events in the beginning, middle, and end of the story. What graphic organizer is suited for this task?

• Flow chart

• Spider map

• Fishbone map

A writer wants to emphasize the causes of a certain problem in their community. What graphic organizer is appropriate for the task?

• Spider map

• Problem-solution map

• Fishbone map

This is a person’s response to the counterclaim. It further supports the claim.

• Claim

• Counterclaim

• Rebuttal

How long should a thesis statement be?

• One to two paragraphs

• One to two words

• One to two phrases

• One to two sentence