Transactional Writing
Help the reader identify topics throughout the a response.
What are Headings or Subheadings?
Writings that tell about real people, places and events.
What is Non-Fiction?
A TED talk delivered to and educated audience.
What is Adichie's 'The Danger of A Single Story'?
This is writing to tell how something works.
What is writing to explain?
Help the reader identify key topics in the book and the order they were presented.
What is Table of Contents?
Used to convince their readers to agree with a certain idea or opinion
What are persuasive techniques?
Helps the reader to justify answers.
What is textual evidence?
A memoir about life in Hong Kong.
What is 'Chinese Cinderella'?
The author's attitude is expressed through the words and details. For example, textbooks are usually written with an objective _______ which includes facts and reasonable explanations and is matter-of-fact and neutral.
What is Tone?
Textual evidence + background knowledge
What is an inference?
A grammatical and logical structure of writing used for emphasis and clarity.
What is parallel structure?
Slanted text that helps a reader understand the word is important.
What is Italics?
Who is Benjamin Zephania.
This is writing to help people deal with a problem.
What is writing to advise?
What text structure is this? I never brush my teeth, so I have 5 cavities.
What is Cause and Effect?
If you use mostly long sentences you should incorporate these into your writing.
What are short, or one-word sentences?
It is a narrative told in the first person.
What is a memoir?
The autobiography written by Aron Ralston.
What is Between a Rock and a Hard Place ?
Shows the reader the order of events that something took place, usually drawn on a line showing dates or years.
What is a Timeline?
This text structure describes a sequence of events
What is chronological?
The people who are supposed to read your imaginative text, and those who actually read it.
Who are the audience and the examiners.
This text structure describes characteristics of something
What is description?
A heavily biased and persuasive text that is trying to look like a factual newspaper article.
What is 'Exploders or Boys Messing about...'
Focuses on causing an emotional reaction in the audience.
What is emotional appeal?
This text structure describes the similarities and differences of two or more things
What is compare/contrast?