Unit 1
To be aware and understand another's thoughts and emotions
Empathy
The state of being isolated or withdrawn.
Alienated
An abundance of wealth.
affluence
Frankness or honesty
Candor
A state of lawlessness and absence of government.
Anarchy
An overarching message or truth that is specific to a text.
Central Idea
What is being communicated in the text.
Message
sentences, paragraphs, chapters, and sections.
Structural elements
A text summarized in one or two words.
Topic
A claim that opposes another claim.
Counterclaim
The people who a text is meant for.
Audience
The purpose of an informational essay.
To inform
Words and phrases that connect ideas in sentences and paragraphs.
Transitional words and phrases
The central message based around the text, based around the topic.
Theme
A counter for a counterclaim.
Rebuttal
In many ways Mitnick was at the peak of his abilities in the 1980s, a decade when security technology and training to block social engineering scams—such as those carried out by Mitnick—were immature. A consideration of the hacker generation of the 1970s and 1980s suggests behaviours that appear driven by a mixture of arrogance plus an inability to easily distinguish right and wrong from good and bad, possibly co-existent with a degree of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Find the tone of this paragraph.
Formal and/or objective
Writing continuously about whatever comes to mind regarding possible topics.
Freewriting
A sentence in an introduction designed to catch the attention of the reader.
Hook
A type of writing that emphasizes logic, specifically claims, reasons, evidence and, counterclaims.
Argument
Informal dialect that does not belong in essays.
Slang
1) At first, Stirling thought it might be an altar. 2) In 1938, archaeologist Matthew Stirling and his team found a stone buried under the forest floor. 3) The stone carving was a magnificent head almost nine feet tall. 4) But as his workers cleared away soil, they discovered it was a sculpture.
Rearrange these sentences in the best possible order, by number.
2, 1, 4, 3
creating a visual representation of ideas and the connections between them.
Idea mapping
An essay structure designed for an easy-to-read, professional look.
MLA format
A claim with reasons why it should be accepted.
Thesis statement
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