Ellegant Essays Final Exam Flashcards
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List several traps you should avoid in writing your thesis.
Universals (all, every, none), Superlatives (Best, Worst), Hyperbole (exaggeration)
Explain parallelism in your thesis.
Phrases that have similar construction and move in the same directions. They stay in the same tense
What is an academic thesis statement?
Three pronged statement. Each prong is the topic for a body paragraph.
What else should be banished from your thesis?
State of being verbs (is am are was were be being been).
What are three ways you can get your brain thinking?
Asking questions, doing a free write and writing a cluster chart.
List the ways you can SHOW and not TELL your topic.
Example, personal experience, statistics, research/testimony, observations, description, anecdote/story, analogy.
Why use transitions?
You don’t want to lose your reading. To keep your reader’s thoughts flowing along the same channels as your own.
What is a bridge transition and what is its purpose?
Bridges link thoughts between paragraphs using transitional words, repeated hrases and synonyms.
Why would you write your intro and concluding paragraphs together?
It’s easier because you often have the same information in both.
Describe the problems with plagiarism.
Plagiarism is claiming another’s words or thoughts as your own. IT’S STEALING!!!
Describe the purpose of a Works Cited Page
To give your reader more information about your sources so that they can check out your information and do more research or follow up if they desire.
What are the different IEW Style techniques.
dress ups, sentence openers, decorations, triple extensions.
What are the dress ups?
who-which clause, “ly” because clause, strong verbs, quality adjectives, when while where as since if although clauses.
What are the Sentence Openers
Subject, Preposition, “ly” word, Ing, Clausal (www.asia.bu), VSS (very short sentence), Advanced: “ed”
What are decorations?
questions, conversation, 3sss, dramatic opening/closing, simile or metaphor, alliteration.
What are the Tiple Extensions?
Word repetition, phrase and clausal repetition, repeating “ings,” consecutive or spaced, repeating adjectives or nouns, repeating verbs, consecutive or spaced.
What are the basic rules for a works cited page
Begin your Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of your research paper. It should have the same one-inch margins and last name, page number header as the rest of your paper.
Label the page Works Cited (do not italicize the words Works Cited or put them in quotation marks) and center the words Works Cited at the top of the page.
Double space all citations, but do not skip spaces between entries.
Indent the second and subsequent lines of citations by 0.5 inches to create a hanging indent.
List page numbers of sources efficiently, when needed. If you refer to a journal article that appeared on pages 225 through 250, list the page numbers on your Works Cited page as 225-50. Note that MLA style uses a hyphen in a span of pages.
(Purdue Owl: MLA formatting, Basic Citation Rules)
