Writing: Planning, Drafting, Revising and Publishing: Unit Review

Task word evaluate (judge with criteria and evidence); form report; audience the school council; length about 700 words.

Main: evaluate. Secondary: inform or entertain.

Role: a student who walks to school; Audience: city councillor or traffic department; Format: formal letter or email; Topic: a crosswalk would make the walk to school safer.

sports → Canadian sports → hockey → the cost of minor hockey in Ontario.

Example: Many families compost. So what? Less food waste goes to landfill. So what? Landfills fill more slowly and produce less methane, so composting helps the environment and the town's budget.

Expanding goes deeper into one idea; exploring looks at it from different perspectives.

Example: (teen OR adolescent) AND sleep AND screens

Currency, Authority, Purpose (and Accuracy is unproven).

Usually no: it is not relevant unless you are comparing systems.

"Rinks bring neighbours outside" (Okafor 42). No comma or p.; period after the citation.

Yes; the idea belongs to the source.

Introduce (signal phrase), evidence (quotation or paraphrase with citation), explain.

Point-by-point.

Chronological (step-by-step).

Is it relevant, accurate, complete, and does it meet the task?

What (text and subject), how (technique), why (insight).

Example: In "Notes on the Fridge," the growing notes suggest that small, steady acts of communication can hold a family together when its members are rarely in the same room.

A motif.

Hook, bridge, thesis.

It echoes the idea that ended the last paragraph and turns to the new one.

Knowledge and Understanding, Thinking, Communication, Application.

As first-draft writing, for topic development and use of conventions.

Example: Joining the robotics club gave me a group of friends in my first week of high school and taught me to solder a circuit.

The opinion must be clear and consistent throughout.

A news structure with the most important information first and less important details later.

A review.

Any two: title, labels, clear reading path, short text, sources, white space.

curious/inquisitive (positive), then nosy (negative). Either curious or inquisitive may come first; both are positive.

Examples: starving, famished, ravenous.

Voice is the writer's personality; tone is the attitude in a particular piece.

When the game ended, the fans cheered. (or a semicolon, or , and)

Therefore.

Ms. Diaz, a former teacher, runs the library.

That every reader has a house with a yard, which many families do not.

Example: The council voted against the proposal.

No. Values should be visible and supported fairly, not hidden in loaded words or unfair assumptions.

Revising, editing, proofreading.

The reason is the cost. (or I think cost is the reason.)

Organization: what each paragraph does and whether the order is logical.

is (Each is singular).

Jordan and I finished the project.

Example: Driving to Ottawa, we saw the Parliament buildings come into view.

The dog wagged its tail.

the teachers' lounge

My favourite colour is grey.

Any two: take a break, print or change the font, read aloud, read backward, one pass per error type, checklist, peer check.

Your name, teacher's name, course, date.

A caption and a source.

Example: I will add at least two sentences of analysis after every quotation in my next essay.

Listening, speaking, reading, viewing, representing.

To show growth and your revision process.