Communities
This act was a discriminatory lending practice that encouraged banks to only offer federally back mortgages and loans to specific ethnic groups.
Redlining
The first sentence or two of a body paragraph that provide the central focus of the paragraph.
Topic sentence
In MLA formatting, these 2 pieces of information are need in the top, right-hand corner of each page.
Writer's last name and page number
This literary device refers to when two or more characters are having a conversation.
Dialogue
This part of the writing process refers to organizing a writer's ideas into a logical series of paragraphs.
Outlining
In Chetla, much like here in the U.S., it is "nearly impossible to get a bank account" (Mask 19) without one of these.
An address
Sentences, phrases, or even words that are used to help improve a writer's flow.
Transitions
This page is placed after the essay itself. This page contains a list of all the sources mentioned in the essay.
Works cited page
This literary device refers to ways in which a writer can help a reader imagine seeing, smelling, hearing, tasting, or touching something in a story.
The 5 senses or sensory details or sensory language
This part of the writing process refers to cutting or adding sentences or even whole paragraphs or moving information within a draft.
Revision
When a location is gentrified, many people living there often experience this when they are no longer able to afford rent or mortgages.
Displacement
The breaking down of ideas into smaller more easily understood components.
Analysis
This kind of citation is used when citing a source within the essay itself.
In-text citation
This literary device refers to the pinnacle of a story, the part where everything feels most dire. It is also one of the 5 stages of plot.
Climax
This part of the writing process refers to the gathering, but not necessarily organizing, of ideas for a project.
Brainstorming
Many streets have practical names like Station Road, Church Street, and Grope Lane (Mask 73) in this city.
London
Quotes, paraphrases, summaries, descriptions. Anything that the writer uses to support their claims.
Evidence
On MLA works cited pages, the source entries are placed in this order.
Alphabetical
This literary device refers to when an object, person, place, or thing represents a larger concept.
Symbolism
This part of the writing process happens when a writer makes small changes to punctuation, capitalization, and formatting.
Proofreading
In Ladue, "which is 87 percent white, [... the] median income [is] $203,250 [whereas a]bout seven miles away, the zip code around [this iconic street] is 94 percent black, and the neighborhood's median income is about $27,608" (Mask 198).
MLK Drive
The tying together of ideas and sources to support a new idea or concept.
Synthesis
These 2 pieces of information are needed to provide an in-text citation for a book.
Author's last name and page number.
This literary device refers to the end of the story when life for the main character resumes to the "new normal." It is also one of the 5 stages of plot.
Resolution
This part of the writing process refers to making sentence-level to improve a draft's clarity and flow. This process involves cutting clutter, varying sentence structure, and/or adding transitions.
Editing