Text Structure
The organization of an author's text.
What is a text structure?
Sentences that help show that a writer's opinion is true.
What is support?
The reason why an author writes something.
What is author's purpose?
A disagreement between two or more people about a certain issue.
What is an argument?
An important thought which tells what the text is about.
What is the main idea?
The suggestion of a problem and a way to solve it.
What is problem and solution?
A writer's opinion or idea.
What is a proposition?
The three most common purposes for writing.
What is to persuade, inform, and entertain?
An opinion about a text, issue, or idea.
What is a claim?
Information needed to support a main idea.
What is essential information?
Text providing step-by-step information.
What is sequence?
Results of scientific research and surveys.
What are facts?
The reason an author writes a story.
What is to entertain?
A claim/position of a person that does not agree with the author.
What is a counterargument?
Information that can be included, but is not needed.
What is nonessential information?
Text telling the differences and similarities of two or more things.
What is compare and contrast?
Facts that are in number form.
What are statistics?
The reason an author writes an article about a historical event.
What is to inform?
Evidence that demonstrates how the counterargument is wrong.
What is a rebuttal?
Information that proves the value of the main idea.
What are supporting details?
Text that provides an action and an explanation of its results.
What is cause and effect?
Information taken from someone on a certain subject, especially direct quotations.
What is expert authority?
An author writes an essay to change the opinion of others.
What is to persuade?
A statement that explains how the evidence connects the evidence to the claim.
What is a bridge/explanation?
Something the main idea is sometimes called.
What is author's thesis?