Vocabulary
Awareness and understanding of another’s thoughts and emotions
What is empathy
An overarching message or truth that is specific to a text.
What is a central idea?
The arrangement of words and phrases
What is syntax?
Determine what the author most wants you to remember about what you are reading.
What is determining a central idea?
As both a reader and a writer, you need to be aware of these three important factors and the interconnections among them.
What are the author's task, purpose, and audience?
Having to do with the ability to think or reason
What is cognitive
Encountered or delivered a message designed to persuade
What is an act of rhetoric?
It presents the central idea and main points of the entire essay, sets up the overall structure and organization of the essay, and gives the readers a preview of where the essay is going and how it will get there.
What is a thesis statement?
The message, the writer/speaker (author), and the audience.
What are the three sides of the rhetorical triangle?
The journalistic questions you should ask about your topic to narrow it down.
What are who, what, where, when, why, and how?
Expressed without unnecessary words; brief and compact
What is succinct
Sentences, paragraphs, chapters, and sections.
What are structural elements?
“Hook” the reader to spark interest in the topic and to create connections.
What should an introduction for an informational essay do?
A writer uses this when identifying a problem (or problems) and then offering one or more solutions.
What is the problem-and-solution structure?
Every paragraph should begin with this.
What is a topic sentence?
A state of society in which diverse groups participate
What is pluralism
When authors juxtapose words or ideas, or place them in relation to each other.
A type of writing that emphasizes logic, specifically claims, reasons, evidence and, counterclaims.
What is argument?
When authors carefully choose their words to convey a particular message.
What is diction?
Organize your points effectively, decide what kind of evidence to include and how much, and develop your counterclaims.
What is the purpose for analyzing your audience?
Protection against loss or damage
What is indemnity
A foundational document that provides readers with information that has some kind of historical impact or significance.
What is a seminal text?
First-person pronouns like I and you and any sort of slang.
What items should not appear in your argument essay?
Deciding how effectively a writer or speaker applies the constitutional principle to support or strengthen a claim, argument, or perspective.
What is evaluating the application of constitutional principles?
The first sentence or first few sentences of the introduction.
What are the “hook,” or the attention grabber, that engages your audience?