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A literary criticism approach emphasizing the relationship between the reader’s interpretation and the text’s meaning.
Reader-response
A method of literary analysis focusing only on the text itself, ignoring the author’s life or historical background.
Formalism
A writing pattern where the author explains what happened, why it happened, and what resulted.
Cause-effect
The use of specialized vocabulary, complex sentence structures, and formal tone in scholarly communication.
Academic Language
The academic skill of combining and condensing information from different sources to create a concise overview.
Summarizing
A literary critique method exploring how a text reflects, reinforces, or challenges economic and class structures.
Marxism
A writing pattern where the author organizes content from earliest to latest events.
Chronological
The use of everyday vocabulary, simple grammar, and informal tone in casual interaction.
Social Language
The act of rewording a statement or text for clarity without changing its original intent.
Paraphrasing
A critical approach that emphasizes the reader’s personal interpretation and experience of the text.
Reader-response
A critical approach that examines literature in relation to social class, economic systems, and the struggles of the working class.
Marxism
A critical approach that analyzes a text by considering the historical and cultural context of its time.
New Historicism
A critical approach that examines how literature portrays gender roles, power dynamics, and women’s experiences.
Feminism
A critical approach that focuses on the form, structure, and literary devices of a text rather than its content or context.
Formalism
A type of academic writing that expresses personal opinions and feelings toward a work or event.
Reaction Paper
A written evaluation or analysis of a work’s strengths, weaknesses, and overall quality.
Critique
Restating someone else’s ideas in your own words while keeping the original meaning.
Paraphrasing
The process of briefly stating the main points or ideas of a text in your own words.
Summarizing
A text structure that provides details about a person, place, object, or event.
Description
A text structure that shows how one event or situation leads to another.
Cause-effect
A text structure that presents an issue and proposes ways to resolve it.
Problem-solution
A text structure that presents events in the order they occurred in time.
Chronological
The way information is organized within a written or spoken text.
Text Structures
The type of language used in everyday conversation, often informal and context-dependent.
Social Language
The type of language used in academic settings, characterized by precision, formality, and subject-specific vocabulary.
Academic Language