coworker read your paper, and highlight the appropriate level they believe you have achieved using the highlighting tool in your word processing software. In addition, please have them identify and copy and paste your thesis statement and the topic sentences for each paragraph. | |Exemplary |Proficient |Emerging |Not Yet Demonstrated | | |100%
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Does each topic sentence directly address the thesis as well as state the topic? * Does each paragraph have an effective closing that reinforces the main point? * Is the essay coherent? Does it flow from beginning to end? * Is the order of the support logical and effective? * Does the essay provide strong evidence to support any opinions? * Does the essay reflect on the evidence and explain its importance? * Does the essay use strong transitions between sentences and between
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6/6/2013 | Time Spent: | 14 min , 27 secs | Points Received: | 9 / 10 (90%) | | Question Type: | # Of Questions: | # Correct: | Multiple Choice | 10 | 9 | | | Grade Details - All Questions | 1. | Question : | In narrative writing, which organizational method is most common? | | | Student Answer: | | alphabetical order | | | | general-to-specific order | | | | spatial order | | | | chronological order | | | | Points Received: | 1 of
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The Writing Process Whether you know it or not, there’s a process to writing – which many writers follow naturally. If you’re just getting started as a writer, though, or if you always find it a struggle to produce an essay, short story or blog, following the writing process will help. I’m going to explain what each stage of the writing process involves, and I’ll offer some tips for each section that will help out if you’re still feeling stuck! 1. Prewriting Have you ever sat staring at a blank
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................... 8 2.8 References............................................................................................. 8 2.9 Appendices ........................................................................................... 8 3 Writing your business report ..............................................................10 3.1 Use effective headings and subheadings............................................. 10 3.2 Structure your paragraphs well
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INSERT A TOPIC SENTENCE: Encapsulates and organizes an entire paragraph. Although topic sentences may appear anywhere in a paragraph, in academic essays they often appear at the beginning. When creating a topic sentence, ask yourself what‟s going on in your paragraph. Why you chosen to include the information you have? Why is the paragraph important in the context of your argument or thesis statement? What point are your trying to make? It should be noted that relating your topic sentences to your
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focus in their writing. Elements such as writing style and tone should be considered as well. One must also consider their audience. Also it is important to establish credibility in the eyes of one’s audience. This can be accomplished through strong sources, personal testimonies and other relevant connections to the subject matter. While the above aspects are important they are not absolute and the best writers are able to strike a balance between these various elements to form a writing style all their
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Technical and Scientific Writing (2001), there are five characteristics that define effective technical communication; accuracy, clarity, conciseness, coherence, and appropriateness. For material that emphasizes clarity and conciseness, I find that section 1.1 of the Mayfield Handbook website falls short of delivering the material in such manners. These five characteristics will be used to provide an evaluative summation of the material. Accuracy in technical writing is comprised of three
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did helped, we got the win and it paid off in the end. At least two sentences explaining why your topic sentence is appropriate * My topic sentence is appropriate because I am the assignment ask what is your greatest success. Another reason it is appropriate is that is normally how I would start off my topic sentence. At least two sentences explaining the purpose of your paragraph and how that affected your writing style * The reason for this paragraph is to inform you
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Brainstorming consists in writing series of words or sentences just as they flow from our mind, although they have no logical order or connections. Once the words are written down, we have to establish relationships among them. This is the embryo of the future text. Free writing. Free writing is a similar technique to the brainstorming. Consists in writing a text without previous decisions or ideas about how we want to write it. Just choosing a topic and writing about it, and then we can summarise
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