Elevating Your Writing Through Color
All out-of-class writing assignments and non-timed in-class writing assignments must have a minimum of:
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3 Examples of
Elevated Vocabulary
Highlight these in YELLOW*.
- While these words do not need to come from a particular list, you may certainly use words from your Vocabulary Workshop units that you'll be working with beginning in late September.
- Do not use verbs from your list of "power verbs."
- Vocabulary Workshop Level H, Units 1-6 (opens in a new tab)
*Please make sure the actual text is BLACK and is then HIGHLIGHTED in YELLOW. I can't read YELLOW TEXT. I realize the irony here. My website program doesn't have a highlighting feature, thus I'm using some of the yellow text I'm telling you NOT to use to make my point.
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Direct Quotes
Highlight these in BLUE.
- For analytical assignments: Quotes should reflect author's craft and how they are used to further the theme or meaning of the work as a whole.
- For creative assignments: Three examples should be provided of how you have strategically utilized a literary device to further your theme.