Writing Style
Physical Characteristics
Things that start with "T"
Key Terms
Got Social Anxiety?
100
The authors often give these along with terms for words or things a general audience might be unfamiliar with like ‘Cortisol’ and ‘Temperament.’
What is a definition or explanation?
100
In this piece, these are used to divide the different studies while keeping them tied together under the main title. (For example, "What Have We Learned from Monkeys?" and "Who Get the Girl? Shy and Bold Guppies").
What are subheaders?
100
This allows professors time to complete long research projects in the tropical regions (or write long humorous books about such research).
What is tenure?
100
It is apparently indistinguishable from a monkey, baboon, ape, chimpanzee, or nonhuman primate.
What is a Volvo?
100
These creatures show that shyness is not necessarily a complex trait.
What are guppies?
200
The author uses this to switch his audience more from academia to every day young adults (two words).
What is colloquial vocabulary?
200
Most pieces of writing have this in the first paragraph, but this piece has a different one for each section.
What is the thesis statement?
200
The overall idea of the writing (for example, comparing studies of animals to the behaviors of humans).
What is the topic?
200
This is when the writer's personality comes into their works.
What is the author's voice?
200
This is the guppy that "gets the girl" according to the cited study.
What are the bold guppies?
300
This is when the author uses a general statement to specific examples. (For example, in this text, the section referring to the monkeys).
What is deduction?
300
The author used this to indicate when a word was important for the reader to remember for later on.
What is italicizing?
300
This is who the piece of writing was intended for; in this work, it seems to be general college students who do not have specific knowledge on primates.
What is Target Audience?
300
This is used to show why some creatures such as monkeys and guppies are born shy.
What is genetics or genes?
300
Part of this work, the part talking about genes and their influence, discusses this old theme that has been debated for years.
What is Nature versus Nurture?
400
This is when the author uses specific examples to make a generalized statement. (For example, in this text, the section referring to the guppies).
What is induction?
400
The authors stop using humor when talking about shyness in this creature.
What is humans?
400
This organizational technique is a type of paragraph that starts or ends with a topic sentence and includes supporting points.
What is a topic paragraph?
400
These hormones seemed to play an important role in determining the extent in which voles make and maintain social attachments.
What is vasopressin or oxytocin?
400
These sort of predestine a person to a particular way/style of life, however, they are not "destiny".
What are genes?
500
This is used throughout the entirety of this text, when the author goes back and forth between two ideas, like a negotiation. (For example, the author describes the behaviors of animals and connects them to the behaviors of humans in a sort of give and take).
What is mediation?
500
The statement(s) that leave the audience a sense of purpose or influence because they have read this writing and tie up all loose ends in the writing. (For example, "Anxious genes or not - you can overcome social anxiety.")
What is the Call to Action or concluding statements?
500
The authors used a specific type of this to reach their target audience (the general public).
What is tone?
500
Mentioned in the “Inhibited Children … Socially Anxious Adults” section, this term is used to describe characteristics that are present early in life.
What is temperament?
500
The reason that the authors write that "Fortunately, our feelings are not easily hurt."
What is calling monogamous males an oxymoron?
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