Unit 1: Digital Communication
The listener, viewer, or reader of a text
What is the audience?
Arranged in the order of time
What is chronological?
Intended to explain or describe something
The time and place of a story
What is the setting?
To judge the significance, worth, or quality of something
What is evaluate?
Helps establish the writer's respect for the audience and suggests that the writer is serious about their topic
What is formal tone?
A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text
What is close reading?
Combine (one thing) with another so that they become a whole
What is integrate?
The turning point or highest point of action in the narrative
What is the climax?
A reference to a source of information (book, article, video, etc.) used in research
What is a citation?
One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing
What is purpose?
Material added at the end of a book
What is an appendix/glossary?
What a piece of writing is mostly about
What is the main idea?
This is where events and complications happen that create interest and lead to the climax of the story. These events often take the form of steps or obstacles in the hero's journey.
What is the rising action?
A preference or point of view that is personal, rather than scientific
What is bias?
A casual, friendly way of speaking that might use slang and informal language
What is informal tone?
Elements added to an article to enhance understanding, point our important info, or format the text
What are text features?
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
What is an inference?
The sequence of events that make up a story or narrative
What is the plot?
This is the process of comparing sources in research to see if they back each other up
What is cross referencing?
Out of date, no longer in use
What is obsolete?
The author's method of organizing the text
What is text structure?
The central, unifying idea of a work of literature
What is the theme?
During this part of the narrative all the conflicts are finally resolved and loose ends are tied up
What is the resolution?
This is a reference within a research paper that states the author's name in parentheses
What is an in-text citation?