Academic Vocabulary
broad in scope; including all or everything
What is comprehensive?
A science writer reviews research on the effects of carbon emissions on air quality in urban areas.
What is a research article?
to use an author’s exact words and place them within quotation marks
What is to Quote?
A first-person account of the life of President George H. W. Bush.
What is an autobiography?
to take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
What is to Extract?
An author writes a third-person account of the life of music legend Aretha Franklin.
What is a biography?
a statement that an author wants to discuss; the main idea or argument of an essay or presentation
What is a Thesis?
A war veteran writes a book about his experiences at war and uses techniques such as flashback, figurative language, and theme to engage readers in the story-like quality of his experiences.
What is literary non-fiction?
to add text to a piece of writing
What is to insert?
A psychologist writes a book describing different explanations on how personality develops.
What is a theory?
the subject of a text, usually expressed as a single word or phrase in the form of a noun
What is the Topic?
If you write about a __________ in a short article, your coverage will be less ________ than it would be in a full-length book.
to impart skills or knowledge to
A person who survived being lost at sea writes a book describing the experience.
What is a memoir?
to follow or to discover the course of something
What is to trace?
Roald will _______ that passage from the journal and include it in his article to show how the scientist had a _________ and distinctive way of looking at the problem.
What is extract and unique?
status established in order of importance or urgency
What is the priority?
A student writes about an experience from his childhood to express his opinion on how to best overcome challenges.
What is a personal essay?
being unlike anything else; one of its kind
What is unique?
The first ________ for writing a ________ for your article is making your main idea clear.
What is priority and thesis?