The Writing Process and Pre-Writing Open Notes Quiz

Boost writing skills! Quiz on writing process stages, pre-writing, and purpose.

Sort the following activities by sequential or recursive. Recursive Writing a Paper Making Spaghetti Sequential Opening a Present Driving to School What is prewriting? Everything you do to prepare for a piece of writing before you actually sit down to write it When you begin writing in paragraph form. When you put in new information to make your ideas make better sense and to support your ideas, take out information that does not belong in this paper, and make your paper “sound” smooth. Read over the three questions you will ask during pre-writing, and then sort the sub questions. What is the general topic? What do I already know about this topic? What do I need to know about this topic? For whom am I writing? What does the person reading my paper already know? What does the person reading my paper need to know? What do I have to say about the topic? What in my personal experience relates to this topic? What are my honest thoughts and feelings about this topic? Match the rhetorical purpose to the appropriate examples. To inform science writing, textbooks, history, news stories, etc. To persuade advertising, speeches, letters to the editor, petitions, etc. To create fiction, poetry, comics, music lyrics, etc. To analyze problem essay, scientific lab reports, literary criticism, etc.