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.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The 1st version of your writing.

• Prewrite

• Edit

• Final Draft

• Draft

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.3

The best version of your writing.

• Final Draft

• Edit

• Draft

• Revise

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

To leave out or take out.

• Edit

• Omit

• Removal

• Potato

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

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.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Thesaurus

• A place to find synonyms

• A place to find antonyms

• A place to find potatoes

• A dinosaur...rawr

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A word of passage that connects two topics or ideas

• Connecting word

• Conjunction

• Transforming Word

• Transition

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2