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quick-write

quick-write noun: a short piece of writing, typically a few sentences long, assigned to students to help them to summarize a concept.

Noun

quick-write (plural quick-writes)

  1. A short piece of writing, typically a few sentences long, assigned to students to help them to summarize a concept.
    • My students enjoyed doing a quick-write using this excerpt from Eve Bunting's novel SOS Titanic.2001, Lola M. Schaefer, Teaching Narrative Writing, page 43

Forms of quick-write

pluralquick-writes

Questions about quick-write

What does quick-write mean?
Quick-write means a short piece of writing, typically a few sentences long, assigned to students to help them to summarize a concept.
What part of speech is quick-write?
Quick-write is a noun.
What is the plural of quick-write?
The plural of quick-write is quick-writes.

Words near quick-write in the dictionary

  1. quick-thinkingness
  2. quick-tongued
  3. quick-witted
  4. quick-wittedly
  5. quick-wittedness
  6. quick-write
  7. quick-writes
  8. quickahash
  9. quickahashes
  10. quickbeam
  11. quickbeams

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