Unit One: Introduction and Basic Skills
1. Parts of a thesis paper, ECR format
Introduction, thesis statement, control overview, assertion, control, conclusion,
restatement of thesis and controls, concluding idea
2. Writing and citing quotations
3. Argument structure, evidence, BCR format
4. Grammar skills
Parts of speech, plurals, possessives, non-sentences, 4 types of sentences, comma usage,
colons, semi-colons
Unit Two: Writers Create Character and Point of View
1. Plotline structure – exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, denoument
2. Types of Conflict — internal and external, person vs. (many types)
3. Setting – tone, mood, and atmosphere
4. Point of view – first person, second person, and third person; limited, omniscient; participant, observer
5. Theme structure, and morals
6. Types of characters – round, flat, static, dynamic
7. Five methods of characterization
Unit Three: Writers Record Experience
1. Types of narrative – autobiography, biography, diary, journal, monologue
2. Reasons for recording experiences, author’s purpose
3. Fact vs. fiction in real accounts
4. Figurative language in narration
Simile, metaphor, imagery, personification
5. Types of irony – verbal, situational, dramatic
6. Themes for WRE: Search for Self, Loss of Innocence, Rite of Passage, Coming of Age
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