Understanding Bias
This word means favoring one person, group, or interpretation over another.
What is bias?
This sentence states the writer's main position or answer to the prompt.
What is a claim?
Before including a quotation, a writer should explain who is speaking and this.
What is what is happening?
Words, quotations, details, or examples from a text used to support a claim are called this.
What is textual evidence?
After writing 'This shows,' a student should explain the evidence instead of doing this.
What is repeating or summarizing the quotation?
A presentation that is fair, balanced, and not influenced by personal feelings is described with this word.
What is unbiased or objective?
“Capote is biased” is a weak claim because it does not include this important explanation.
What is how or why Capote is biased?
This information helps readers understand when, where, and under what circumstances evidence appears.
What is context?
For a claim that Capote makes Perry sympathetic, this is stronger evidence: Perry's childhood or the color of the Clutter house.
What is information about Perry's childhood?
The phrase “This shows” should be followed by an explanation, not simply this.
What is a repetition or summary of the evidence?
Capote's description of Perry's difficult childhood may cause readers to feel this emotion toward him.
What is sympathy or empathy?
Complete this claim: “Capote presents a sympathetic view of Perry by emphasizing ______.”
What is Perry’s traumatic childhood and mental health?
Complete the introduction: “During Perry’s trial, psychiatrist Dr. Jones evaluates Perry’s ______.”
What is mental condition or psychological state?
Capote’s detailed account of Perry’s childhood may influence readers to view Perry in this way.
What is sympathetically or as shaped by trauma?
Complete the analysis: By including Dr. Jones's complete evaluation, Capote may cause readers to do this.
What is question the verdict or understand Perry more sympathetically?
A writer can use accurate facts and still show bias by choosing which facts to include, omit, or do this to.
What is emphasize?
This type of claim acknowledges another interpretation before defending the writer’s position.
What is a nuanced claim or counterclaim?
Explain what is missing: “Capote writes, ‘[quotation].’”
What is context explaining who is involved and what is happening?
Put these TIED steps in order: quotation, explanation, claim, and context.
What is Topic, Introduction to Evidence, Evidence, Description?
Complete the analysis: “By including Dr. Jones’s complete evaluation, Capote gives readers information the jury did not hear, which may cause readers to ______.”
What is question the verdict or understand Perry more sympathetically?
Capote presents the Clutters' suffering and Perry's trauma, suggesting his account may be neither completely biased nor unbiased, but this.
What is partially balanced or nuanced?
Improve this claim: “Capote is biased because he likes Perry.”
What is Capote presents a partially biased view by emphasizing Perry’s trauma and psychiatric condition, encouraging readers to view him sympathetically?
Words, quotations, details, or examples from a text that support a claim are called this.
What is textual evidence?
A strong analysis distinguishes Capote’s perspective from this evidence-based judgment made by the student.
What is the student’s independent conclusion?
This word means favoring one person, group, or interpretation over another.
What is bias?