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- 1. Multiple Choice
What makes an effective piece of writing?
Organization, Love, Words, a Purpose
Development, Organization, a Targeted Audience, a Purpose
Targeted Audience, 3 Paragraphs, Words
Development, at Least 6 Sentences, Paper
- 2. Multiple Choice
Exemplification
Supports a claim by explaining how
Supports a claim by showing evidence
Supports a point about a claim by providing examples
Supports a point about a claim by drawing pictures
- 3. Multiple Choice
Description
Describes what happened and why it happened
Drawing pictures to show a scene
Long sentences without breaks or pauses
Uses sensory perceptions (S,S,S,T,T) of persons, places, or things... to create a sense of experience for the reader
- 4. Multiple Choice
Narration
Tells a story typically in 1st or 2nd person to help prove your point
Tells a brief story or recounts an event. It is basically a brief story that helps prove your point. It can be in first or third person
Used to explain how something is done
When someone is talking in a story
- 5. Multiple Choice
Process Analysis
Explains when something is done
Explains how something is done
Explains where something is done
Explains what something is
- 6. Multiple Choice
Comparison and Contrast
Used to discuss similarities and differences between things or things be analyzed
Used to sort things into different categories
Typically when two colors are strikingly difference
- 7. Multiple Choice
Division and Classification
Used to sort things in to parts
Used to sort a whole in to parts, or group similar things together, mostly used when the writer wants to analyze and group similar things or separate a whole
Used to slice up a pie into different slices depending on their burned-ness
When two people hate eachother because of social status
- 8. Multiple Choice
Definition
Defining stuff based off of how you feel about it
Defines or explains a term or idea.
Traces a boundary of something
Explains what happened
- 9. Multiple Choice
Cause and Effect
Explains when something happened. Usually used to analyze present events
Explains what people were involved in an event. Usually used to analyze past events
Explains why something happened or the results of an event. Usually used to analyze past events
Explains where something happens. Usually used to analyze future events
- 10. Poll
Defintion
Used to define or explain a term or idea. It is used to "trace the boundaries" of something
You can use it when your essay focuses on any abstract terms that need further explanation It is also useful when you want to distinguish two terms.
- 11. Poll
Narration
Tells a story or recounts an event.
It is basically a brief story that helps prove your point.
It can be in first person (I, me, we,us) or third person (he, she, it, they)
- 12. Poll
Process Analysis
Used to explain how something is done or how something happens.
Usually a writer needs to describe the process and then analyze why its important to the thesis
- 13. Poll
Comparison and Contrast
Used to Discuss the similarities and differences between two things.
It is mostly used when two different people, places, events, or things, are being analyzed.
- 14. Poll
Division and Classification
Used to sort into parts or divide a whole into parts.
This is mostly used when a writer wants to analyze and group similar items or divide one item up into parts
- 15. Poll
Exemplification
Supports a point about a CLAIM by providing examples.
Examples can be in the form of facts, statistics, cases in point, personal experiences or quotations that could help prove a point.
- 16. Poll
Description
Uses sensory perceptions (such as sight, sound, smell, taste, touch) of persons, places, or things,
and adds vivid details to create a sense of experience for the reader.
- 17. Poll
Cause and Effect
Used to explain why something happened, or describe the results of an event, action, or condition.
This method is used frequently in history to examine past events and analyze their outcomes
- 18. Multiple Choice
Supports a claim by providing examples
Exemplification
Definition
Description
Narration
- 19. Multiple Choice
Uses sensory perceptions and vivid detail to create a sense of experience for the reader
Exemplification
Definition
Description
Narration
- 20. Multiple Choice
Tells a story or recounts an event briefly to help prove a point
Narration
Description
Exemplification
Definition
- 21. Multiple Choice
Explains how something is done/happens. Typically a described process analyzed in its importance to the thesis
Comparison and Contrast
Division and Classiication
Process Analysis
Cause and Effect
- 22. Multiple Choice
Discusses the similarities and differences between two things, usually when these two things are being analyzed.
Process Analysis
Comparison and Contrast
Division and Classification
Cause and Effect
- 23. Multiple Choice
Sorts things/divides a whole into part, used when a writer wants to group similar items or divide one item into parts while being analyzed
Comparison and Contrast
Process Analysis
Division and Classification
Cause and Effect
- 24. Multiple Choice
Defines or explains a term or idea, "traces the boundaries" of something. Used when a term is used in an essay/writing and needs further explanation. Also used to distinguish two terms
Description
Exemplification
Narration
Defintion
- 25. Multiple Choice
Explains why something happened or the results of an event, action, or condition. Frequently used to analyze the outcomes of past events (in history)
Comparison and Contrast
Cause and Effect
Process Analysis
Division and Classification
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