Chapter 2

Question 1

What is a group of sentences used to develop a topic?

Answer 1

paragraph

Question 2

What is the first sentence of a paragraph?

Answer 2

topic sentence

Question 3

What does the topic sentence do?

Answer 3

states the paragraph’s main idea

Question 4

What are the sentences that provide explanation of the topic sentence?

Answer 4

developing sentences

Question 5

How are developing sentences developed?

Answer 5

by giving examples, telling incidents, or providing reasons

Question 6

What is the last sentence of a paragraph?

Answer 6

clincher

Question 7

What does the clincher do?

Answer 7

restates the paragraph’s topic

Question 8

What should the clincher include?

Answer 8

keywords from the topic and developing sentence(s)

Question 9

What should the clincher not include?

Answer 9

new information and the next paragraph’s point

Question 10

What means that every piece of information you include supports your main idea, thesis sentence, and/or the topic sentence of your paragraph?

Answer 10

unity

Question 11

What means that all the sentences in a pargraph flwow to communicate an idea in the clearest way?

Answer 11

coherence

Question 12

What are three ways to arrange details?

Answer 12

chorological order, space order, order of importance

Question 13

What are specific words that point out how any sentence or idea relates to another?

Answer 13

transitions

Question 14

What are words that join clauses and unequal grammatical ideas?

Answer 14

subordinating conjunctions

Question 15

What type of writing style results from using too many compound sentences?

Answer 15

stringy style

Question 16

What are some things to omit when correcting a stringy style?

Answer 16

and, so, and so, and then

Question 17

When correcting a stringy style, what should independent clauses be reduced to?

Answer 17

dependent clauses or phrases

Question 18

What results from only using short, simple sentences?

Answer 18

choppy style

Question 19

What results from writing too many sentences with the same syntax?

Answer 19

monotonous style

Question 20

What is the orderly arrangement sequence of word’s, phrases, and clauses to create a balanced sentence?

Answer 20

syntax

Question 21

What mean using as many words as are necessary to express an idea correctly, clearly, and effectively?

Answer 21

conciseness

Question 22

What is the use of frequently used expressions that rarely add meaning to a sentence?

Answer 22

process

Question 23

What are words that do not add information or specicity and should be cut from a sentence?

Answer 23

empty words