Analyzing Prompts | Essays | Essay Structure | Thinking maps and Essay Types |
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What is a Prompt?
Instructions that detail what you are required to write for a specific assignment.
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What is explanatory, narrative, and argumentative?
These are the three types of essays we have discussed?
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What are the sources?
You must cite these within your essays
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What is tell, story, relate, imagine, and describe?
These words can be used to imply a narrative essay should be written
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What is Context, Explicit directions, and Implicit directions?
Prompts CONSIST of these three components.
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What are the introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion?
The structure of an essay contains these 3 components
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What is the conclusion
This is the last paragraph in your essay
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What is a double bubble map?
This thinking map can be used to compare and contrast
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What is the type of writing, what information should be included, and the audience?
When analyzing the prompt you can identify these three things.
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What is the thesis statement?
This sentence is at the end of the first paragraph and lets the reader know the main idea of the essay
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What is to restate the thesis and wrap up your essay?
This is the purpose of your conclusion
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What is a persuasive essay?
If you are trying to convince someone, you are using what type of essay
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What is action verbs?
Explain, describe, and persuade are these types of words
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What are your sources?
This needs to be read multiple times and contains the evidence used in your essay.
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What is R.A.C.E?
This is the format your body paragraphs should be written in
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What is a brace map?
To map out relationships you would use this kind of thinking map
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What is your audience?
Your teachers, peers, or anyone reading your essay are considered this.
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What are thinking maps?
You use these to help organize your essays
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What is 5?
This is how many paragraphs are recommended for you to have within your essay
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What is explanatory?
When you are tasked with comparing and contrasting a topic within a prompt, you are writing this type of essay.
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