Guides: Writing and vocabulary

Writing assignments

• Seven stages of writing assignments
• Develop your topic (1)
• Identify your audience (2)
• Research (3)
• Organizing with notecards (3a)
• Prewrite (4)
• Draft/write (5)
• Revise (6)
• Proofread (7)

Types of writing:

• Writing for the "Web"
• The five-paragraph essay
• Essays for a literature class
• Expository essays
• Persuasive essays
• Position papers
• Open book exams
• Essay Exams
• White papers
• Lab reports/scientific papers
• Research proposals

Helpful

• Citing Websites
• Writing under deadline
• Writing Strategies Learned

Vocabulary

• Transitional words & phrases
• Essay terms and directives
• Modifiers & commas

Spelling exercises:

• Spelling strategies
• Spelling rules & exercises
• Common misspelled words
• There | They're | Their
• Too | Two | To
• "Y" with suffixes
• Prefixes and root words
• Suffixes and silent "e"
• Mapping vocabulary
• Picturing vocabulary
• American alphabet recited