PACT Essential Academic Skills: Tests 701, 702, 703 Graded A

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PACT Essential Academic Skills: Tests 701, 702, 703 Graded A Descriptive writing Writing used to create detailed descriptions of people, places, and things, and/or mood and atmosphere. Can stand a ... lone or be part of a narrative Sensory details descriptions of sight, sound, touch, smell, taste transition words words that create a sense of time and organize events in the story narrative writing writing that tells a story or describes a specific person, place, or thing. Persuasive/argumentative writing writing that seeks to convince the reader ot believe the writer's opinion on a topic Examples of narrative/descriptive writing short stories, vignettes, letters, memoirs, and poems Examples of Persuasive/argumentative writing advertisements, commercials, speeches, newspaper editorials, debates Expository/Informative writing writing that explains a topic or gives general information on a topic examples of Expository/Informative writing compare/contrast essays, brochures, research reports, informative pieces. rhetorical patterns sequential order, chronological order, order of importance, spacial order, cause and effect, problem and solution, claim and refutation, compare and contrast sequential order orderly progression of events, ideas or steps Chronological order orderly progression of events based on time order of importance arrangement of ideas with the most important claim at the top or bottom spatial order arrangement of ideas related o physical space cause and effect event is described followed by the possible outcomes problem and solution author presents a problem and a possible solution claim and refutation arguing against a statement, fact, or claim compare and contrast provides similarities and differences about [Show More]

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