- Abstract
- Advertisement
- Annotated bibliography
- Biography or autobiography
- Brochure, poster
- Budget with rationale
- Case analysis
- Chart, graph, visual aid
- Client report for an agency
- Cognitive map, web or diagram
- Contemplative essay
- Debate
- Definition
- Description of a process
- Diagram, table, chart
- Dialogue
- Diary of a real or fictional historic character
- Essay exam
- Executive summary
- Fill in the blank test
- Flowchart
- Group discussion
- Instructional manual
- “Introduction” to an essay or scientific report (rather than the full report)
- Inventory
- Laboratory or field notes
- Letter to the editor
- Matching test
- Materials and methods plan
- Mathematical problem
- Memo
- “Micro-theme” (a tight, coherent essay typed on a 5x 8 note card)
- Multimedia or slide presentation
- Multiple-choice test
- Narrative
- News or feature story
- Notes on reading
- Oral report
- Outline
- Personal letter
- Plan for conducting a project
- Poem, play, choreography
- Question
- Regulations, laws, rules
- Research proposal addressed to a granting agency
- Review of book, play, exhibit
- Review of literature
- Rough draft or freewrite (writer writes freely, with no constraints for a certain amount of clock time)
- "Start" (a thesis statement and outline or list of ideas for developing)
- Statement of assumptions
- Summary or precis
- Taxonomy or set of categories
- Technical or scientific report
- Term paper, research paper
- Thesis sentence (sentence that expresses author’s main point)
- Word problem
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