College English 101: Midterm (Writing Composition)
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What are the three points on a composition triangle?
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audience, speaker, purpose
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What are modes of writing? List a few examples.
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they are a type of writing (narration, exposition, definition, classification, description, process analysis, persuasion)
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A narration does not list events, but rather it
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explains events
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what is an anecdote?
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short story that serves a point of some sort
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What type of writing is exposition?
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explanatory writing
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in definition writing, nothing is defined according to the dictionary, but through
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the world and experiences
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what is way to plan for a comparison piece of writing?
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to write subjects in rows and points being made in columns, then decide if you will write according to each row or to each column
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Process analysis writing is usually about
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instructions or a detailed account of a process
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What are the six traits of writing?
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1. conventions 2. organization 3. word choice 4. sentence fluency 5. ideas 6. voice
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conventions involve
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spelling, punctuation, grammar, paragraphing
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