D.23 Communicate in writing

After mastering D.23, your student should be able to demonstrate the following skills:

• Plan a piece of writing.
• Connect supporting ideas to the main idea.
• Understand the importance of a pre-write or rough draft.
• Write an effective opening paragraph and summary paragraph.
• Identify complete sentences and sentence fragments in context.
• Correct run-on sentences in context.
• Use synonyms
• How to organize a paper.

Furthermore, they should be able to answer the following questions:

• What is corrected during the editing process?
• What is a complete sentence?
• What is a sentence fragment?
• What is a run-on sentence?
• What is a synonym?
• What does "compare and contrast" mean?