I Know This!
Narratives focus on this aspect...
What are "events"
The moment when the action in the plot of a narrative is most intense-the culmination, after which the dramatic tension is released.
Climax
Figurative Language
An objection that might be raised against a claim one is making in a dispute.
Counterargument
The five basic elements to help create meaning in an essay.
Topic, thesis, coherence, tone, and style
The actual intended readers of the work...
Audience
This is defined by the textbook as a close reading: it sticks to the text as closely as possible and avoids reading too much (or too little) into the text.
Reading Critically
A type of writing that closely examines a text, idea, or object with an eye to understanding and explaining how it is put together (form) and how it works (function).
A brief narrative, often told for the purpose of attracting a reader's attention or leading into a larger point.
Anectdotes
A ___ is a broad field of inquiry; a ___ is a specific area within that field.
Subject, Topic
To make notations about a text by writing questions and comments in the margins and by highlighting, underlying, circling, or otherwise marking specific words and phrases...
Annotate
Description is a means of showing rather than telling. Description makes anything we write less abstract, or general, and more concrete.
Why do we describe?
This describes the subject factually, without the intrusion of the writer's own feelings
Objective Description
These are some helpful tips for previewing before reading:
Think about your purpose for reading
Consider the context
Think about the title
Skim the text for other design elements
Read the introduction paragraph(s) and the conclusion
Think about the overall form and method of the text.
When a writer has done their research, found ideas, and elements to weave into the paper but do not want to simply repeat what others have said.
Synthesizing ideas
The main point of a text. This is framed as a statement that is clear, concise, and arguable.
Thesis
The main sense, feeling, or mood that a description conveys to the reader.
Dominant Impressions
This is when the a thesis is not stated explicitly.
Implied Thesis
The Four Types of Writing
Narration, Description, Exposition, Argument
The three most common ways of introducing the ideas of others.
Quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Writing that takes a position on an issue and seeks to convince its audience to act in a certain way, to believe in the truth or validity of a statement, or simply to listen with an open mind.
Argument
This is better defined not by location but by purpose which is to engage the writer in the ongoing human conversation about ideas and to contribute however, modestly, to the advancement of knowledge.
Academic Writing
An examination of what a piece of writing says or means-and how that meaning is conveyed to an audience.
Rhetorical Analysis
The three areas where a thesis statement can be positioned
Beginning of the essay, in the body of the essay, end of the essay
This is when every idea in the text is clear-and clearly related to every other idea.
Coherence