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?