Ellegant Essays Final Exam Flashcards
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.
