Research Writing
Vocabulary Terms
Argument Writing
Authors Craft
Critical Perspectives
100
In order to prove your claim you need valid, reliable and credible information
What is Sources?
100
A policy of extending the rule or influence of a country over other countries or colonies
What is Imperialism?
100
A position statement (or thesis) that asserts an idea or makes an argument for a specific topic. Your side.
What is a claim
100
A writer or speakers attitude toward a subject, character, or audience evident from the words used and way they express their ideas about that subject, character, or audience
What is tone?
100
Focuses on relationships between genders and examines a text based on the patterNs of thought, behavior, values, enfranchisement, and power in relations between and within the sexes
What is Feminist Criticism?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY Local, national, or international issues that are current topics of interest or debate. The way in which the reader knows the topic of your paper.
What is an argument question/thesis
200
To regulate or confine a person to a lower or outer limit
What is Marginalize
200
A position taken by someone with an opposing viewpoint. Their side.
What is a counterclaim? Counterargument? Refutation?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY The atmosphere or general feeling evoked from a literary work
What is Mood?
200
Examining literature based on its symbols and patterns
What is archetype criticism?
300
Journals, Diary Entries, historical documents, and news reports
What is Primary Sources
300
A term used to describe images that make an argument or that support an argument, these images appeal to a person’s emotions, logic, or admiration of a prominent figure.
What are rhetorical devices - Ethos. Pathos, Logos
300
An admission in an argument that the opposing side has valid points
What is concession?
300
A manner of writing that mocks social conventions, actions, or attitudes with wit or humor; this is often seen in political cartoons
What is Satire?
300
Viewing a text through the perspective of socio economics provides the foundation for all social, political, and ideological reality.
What is Marxist Criticism
400
News reports, Encyclopedias, textbooks, Wikipedia
What is Secondary Sources
400
Factors including life experience, background, education, significant relationships, affect your __________in which you view the world.
What is Perspective?
400
A restatement of the claim and what the writer wants to the reader to do; a plea to the reader to help make a change.
What is a call to action?
400
The placement of words and phrases in a text that help create further meaning
What is sentence structure?
400
Analyzing text based on elements of culture and how they affect one’s perceptions and understanding of texts
What is Cultural Criticism?
500
In order to receive credit for your evidence you need to provide this, which will also be listed in your works cited page.
What is citations?
500
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” is an example of….
What is an aphorism?
500
The information that supports or proves an idea or claim; forms of evidence include facts, statistics, expert opinions, examples, and anecdotes.
What is Evidence?
500
The use of specific vocabulary in a text which emphasizes an important element of the story by using dialect, specific word choices, that helps to develop the mood and tone.
What is diction?
500
Analyzing a text based on the readers own experiences, social ethics, moral values, and general view of the world
What is Reader Response Criticism?
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