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Author's Purpose
Main Idea/ Supporting Details
Text Structure
Supporting the Central Idea
Research
100
The author wants to amuse the reader or for the reader to enjoy the writing
What is entertain?
100
a statement that tells what a passage is mostly about *The reader can determine this AFTER reading and comprehending, because it is not always stated outright in the passage.*
What is main idea?
100
grouping elements of a subject according to their similarities and differences
What is compare and contrast?
100
statements that can be proven true
What is statement of fact?
100
two strategies used to fact check
What are (multiple answers: clarify the fact, verify with an expert, "common sense" test, ask questions, use reference books, etc.) ?
200
The author wants the reader to do, buy, or believe something
What is persuade?
200
the general subject that the passage is about, usually one or two words
What is topic?
200
describing a problem and then explaining one or more ways to solve it
What is problem and solution?
200
comes from recognized authorities
What is expert testimony?
200
put into the writer's own words and cites the source
What is paraphrasing?
300
The author wants to give the reader information
What is inform?
300
a sentence in a passage that states the main idea of that passage
What is topic sentence?
300
presenting actions and their results
What is cause and effect?
300
facts or data of a numerical kind that have been collected and analyzed
What are statistics?
300
stealing an author's words or ideas and using them as your own
What is plagiarism?
400
The author wants the reader to visualize or experience a person, place, or thing
What is describe?
400
more narrow ideas, evidence, examples, details, and elaboration that support the main idea in a passage
What are supporting details?
400
presenting events in time order in which they occurred
What is chronological order?
400
accounts from eyewitnesses
What are firsthand accounts?
400
three ways people plagiarize
What are (multiple answers: Borrowing'  a friend's paper & copying their sentences, paragraphs, etc. Downloading a paper from the Internet & turning it in as your own. Not turning in a Works Cited (bibliography) page Copying passages from a source without putting the passages within quotation marks and giving credit to the author Retaining too much of the wording and style of the original in paraphrasing/summarizing Examples: Changing a word or words periodically within a sentence. Inverting a sentence. Using entire phrases from another source as your own. Combining someone else’s sentences into one sentence or breaking one sentence into two or more sentences. Omitting a word or phrase but retaining the original content.) ?
500
The author wants to tell the reader how to do something or how something works
What is explain?
500
_____ is the main idea of this paragraph: In On Woman’s Rights to Suffrage, Susan B. Anthony explains why woman should have the right to vote. The Constitution guarantees the right to vote, and the dictionary defines a citizen as a “person.” Therefore, in order to be a true democracy, all people must be granted the right to vote.
What is "Women should have the right to vote."?
500
features a detailed description of something in order to give the reader a mental picture
What is descriptive?
500
a brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event
What are anecdotes?
500
In website credibility, ABCD stands for _____
What is: Author Bias Cost Domain?