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Focus on expository writing
Coherent and focused texts that convey a well-defined
perspective and tightly-reasoned argument; awareness of
audience and purpose; conventions and usage of standard
English
WRITING and CONVENTIONS
Assessment Description/Performance Task
 Narrative, expository, persuasive, technical or research writing; timed or process writing
How can we clearly and effectively convey ideas about a text? How can we use primary and secondary sources to produce
expository writing? What are rhetorical devices, and how do writers use them in writing? Why is it important to consider the
audience when writing? How does a writer convey his/her individual “voice” in writing? How do we avoid plagiarism? Why is the
correct usage of the English language important to the messages we are trying to convey? What are “standard English
conventions”? Why is visual presentation of writing important to the author’s purpose? How have advances in technology
impacted writing?
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Structure
Narrative
Persuasive
Technical
Clear, logical and
purposeful
Sophisticated language
and style
Timed and process
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Expository
Thesis
Primary and/or secondary
sources
Perspective(s)
Addresses potential
misunderstandings, biases,
expectations
Coherence
Organized
Expository discourse
Rhetorical devices
Style
Attains closure
Research and Technology
 Research venues
 Primary and secondary
sources
 Supporting evidence
 Variety of media
 Quotations and citations
 Appropriate conventions
for documentation
 Systematic organization
 Databases, graphics and
spreadsheets
 Designs and publishes
documents
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Conventions
Proper English usage and
control of grammar
Correct sentence and
paragraph structure, diction
and syntax
Correct use of clauses (main
and subordinate); phrases
(gerund, infinitive,
participial)
Use of proper punctuation
(end stops, commas,
semicolons, colons, ellipses,
hyphens
Correct sentence
construction
Appropriate manuscript form
Structure
Expository
Research and Technology
Conventions
ELA12W1; ELA12W2
ELA12W4
ELA12W1; ELA12W2
ELA12W3
ELA12W3
ELA12C1; ELA12C2
CCSD Version Date: July 2007
Unit Vocabulary
 Expository
 Persuasive
 Technical
 Narrative
 Research
 Purpose
 Audience
 Establish
CCSD Version Date: July 2007
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Select
Produce
Genre
Compare
Contrast
Thesis
Controlling idea
Argument
Precise language
Rhetorical devices
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Action verbs
Sensory details
Modifiers
Active voice
Passive voice
Introductions
Supporting evidence
Conclusions
Style
Parallelism
Gerund
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Syntax
Diction
Grammar
Paragraph structure
Point of view
Primary source
Secondary source
Timed writing
Process writing
Ellipses
Clauses