Writing Subareas
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0011 Understand Effective Writing
- revising text to introduce and conclude ideas effectively
- revising text to coordinate and subordinate ideas effectively
- revising text to create or improve the parallel structure of words, phrases, or ideas
- revising text to achieve the effective placement and emphasis of important words, phrases, or ideas
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2
30
32
33
34
36
37
38
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100%
8/8
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0012 Understand Clear, Concise, and Coherent Writing
- recognizing clear and concise position statements, topic sentences, and propositions
- revising text to achieve the logical development of a main idea (e.g., reorganizing sentences within a paragraph, selecting effective supporting details, using transitional words and phrases)
- revising text to achieve precise and appropriate language usage (e.g., replacing misused words and phrases; replacing vague expressions with concrete, specific language)
- revising text to eliminate wordiness, redundancy, and distracting or extraneous information
- revising text to eliminate misplaced or dangling modifiers, ambiguous or awkward pronoun references, and shifts in tense or mood
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1
4
5
14
24
27
28
29
31
35
39
40
41
42
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100%
14/14
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0013 Understand Grammatical Writing
- applying knowledge of the standard use of nouns and pronouns
- applying knowledge of the standard use of verbs
- applying knowledge of the standard use of adjectives and adverbs
- applying knowledge of subject–verb agreement and pronoun–antecedent agreement
- applying knowledge of the construction of simple, compound, and complex sentences
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3
7
9
10
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16
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21
22
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100%
10/10
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0014 Understand Writing Mechanics and the Conventions of Standard American English
- applying knowledge of the rules of spelling and commonly misspelled words
- applying knowledge of the rules of capitalization and the standard use of capital letters
- applying knowledge of the rules of punctuation and the standard use of punctuation marks
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6
8
12
15
18
19
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25
26
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100%
10/10
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