capstone 2

Research

Simply means collecting information about a topic

Primary data

Come from firsthand experience

Secondary data

Come from reading what others have experienced or observed and written about

Brainstorming

The spontaneous contribution of ideas by team members

Mind mapping

A process for generating and sorting ideas

Direct strategy

The main idea comes first, followed by details, explanation, or evidence

Indirect strategy

The main idea follows the details, explanation, and evidence

frontloading

direct method

Freewriting

A writing technique that involves getting your thoughts down quickly and refining them in a later version

Fragment

Usually a broken-off part of a complex sentence

Run-on sentence

Also called a fused sentence, is a sentence error that results when two independent clauses are incorrectly joined (fused) together without a conjunction or a semicolon

Comma splice

A sentence error that results when a writer joins two independent clauses with a comma

Active voice

The subject (also called the actor) performs the action

Passive voice

The subject receives the action

Parallelism

A writing technique that produces balanced writing

Dangling modifier

Occurs when the word or phrase it describes is missing from its sentence

Misplaced modifier

Occurs when the word or phrase it describes is not close enough to be clear

Paragraph

A group of sentences about one idea

Topic sentence

Expresses the primary idea of the paragraph, often, but not always, comes first in a paragraph

Supporting sentences

Illustrate, explain, or strengthen the primary idea

Coherent

When ideas stick together, and one idea leads logically to the next

Transitional expressions

Enable the receiver to anticipate what's coming, reduce uncertainty, and speed comprehension. They signal that a train of thought is moving forward, being developed, possibly detouring, or ending