Culture
Sources
Writing bias
Writing organization
Wild card
100

The belief patterns and traits expressed by a particular community, period, class, or population are called ____ values.

Cultural
100

A person, book, document, website or record that provides information is called a ____.

Source
100

These are what make an author's claims or information believable and useful.


Credentials
100

This is a type of real-world writing that presents material that is necessary or valuable to the reader.

Informational text
100

This is to form (an idea, opinion, conclusion, etc) by combining parts or elements; to collect information on a topic to summarize, analyze AND interpret it.

Synthesize
200

This includes language, ideologies, beliefs, values, and norms. These elements help to shape the life of a society.

Cultural elements
200

An original document or firsthand account is called a ____ source.

Primary
200

These do not support the main idea of a paragraph. They do not focus on the main idea and may mislead or confuse the reader. They are called ____.

Irrelevant
200

This is a method of examining similarities and differences between two or more objects in a piece of work.



Compare and contrast
200

This is a term entered into a search engine, or the search bar on a webpage, which is meant to attract pages containing specific information.



Keyword
300

This is the phrase for the set of values, beliefs, and opinions shared by a group and surrounding the author at the time of her writing.

Cultural setting
300

This is a commentary on an original document or firsthand account.

Secondary source
300

The _____ of a research source refers to the accuracy of the information contained in it.

Reliability 
300

This wraps up a piece of writing and reminds readers of the main idea.

Conclusion
300

This refers to the ordering of elements in a sentence.

Syntax
400

This is an individual's mental or moral quality.

Character
400

This is a source used to find information.

Reference
400

When something closely relates to a subject it is called ____ to the subject.

Relevant 
400

This is the kind of writing that tries to persuade readers to accept an author\'s opinions.

Argumentation
400

This is a set of words that begins with a preposition.

Prepositional phrase
500

The ________ context refers to various conditions and the climate of opinion that surround the text's creation or an event's occurrence. This helps readers understand a text's urgency, its importance, its shape, or even its timing. It considers what was happening at the time an event occurred or a text was written.

Social context
500

In writing, this is the process of ordering, structuring and presenting information. It is called the _____ of the text.

Organization
500

When we find the meaning of a word (or phrase) by looking at the words and sentences around it, we are using ____ clues.

Context
500

This is a mode of writing whose purpose is to convey information or to explain and establish the validity of an idea in a logical, clear, and concrete manner.

Expository text
500

This refers to the language of a specialized type, usually dealing with a narrow area of study or knowledge. It has a slightly negative connotation, and can imply that the language is mere word play.



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