Writing Strategies

The best strategy for writing a summary is the following: keep it brief

• using an overview

• using an account of main points

• using 5 Ws and How plus the key points

• avoid specific details

• All of the above

Paraphrasing involves:

• a more detailed quote or original rendition

• Attributing the original source

• your own rendition of essential information from text presented in a new form

• all the above

• both B and C - Attributing the... and your own rendition.....

It is effective when writing topic sentences within paragraphs to use varied details to support your topic such as facts, examples, comparison, contrast, narrative, definition, process and analysis.

• true

• false

A detail is sufficient when it makes the topic interesting and provides enough detail to clarify or convince the reader.

• True

• False

What is the effect of using a rhetorical question in writing?

• To provide the reader with specific information

• To persuade the reader by appealing to their emotions

• To engage the reader by prompting them to think about the topic

• To confuse the reader by introducing unrelated topics

What is the purpose of a thesis statement in an essay?

• To summarize the conclusion

• To list the sources used

• To outline the main argument or claim

• To provide a detailed description of the topic

Identify the list that contains an example of a writing strategy.

• plot, paragraph, rhetorical question, and essay

• conflict, rhetorical question, personification, and alleration

• conflict, paragraph, personification, and setting

• plot, essay, rhetorical question, and personification

Tags

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2.d

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5

One caveat to using supporting details to support a topic sentence is

• to ensure that they are relevant, that they flow

• to ensure that they flow with relevant, specific and varied details that clarifies the author's meaning without any confusion.

• that the details have a definite attitude and a sense of direction or development.

• both b and c to ensure.... and that the details....

What writing strategy does the following lines represent?
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.

• personification

• symbolism

• metaphor

• allusion

What writing strategy is represented by the following lines:
“When well-appareled April on the heel
Of limping winter treads.”

• metaphor

• alliteration

• symbolism

• personification