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Miscellaneous
100
Borrowing ideas that are not your own and not giving credit to whom those ideas belong.
What is Plagiarism
100
Can be verified or proven.
What is Fact
100
Neutral, free from emotional attachment to one side or the other.
What is Objective
100
A writer's voice.
What is Tone
100
Your position on a subject based on your experiences and beliefs.
What is Personal Preference
200
A brief - usually one paragraph - restatement of main ideas.
What is Summary
200
A piece of information that furnishes some proof that what the writer argues is true.
What is Evidence
200
When an author uses a more relaxed or informal language he/she is writing to a __________________________.
What is General Audience
200
Statements that seem overly inclusive.
What is Sweeping Generalizations
200
Using meaningful units of words to analyze a word.
What is Structural Analysis
300
A kind of translation of others' words into your own words.
What is Paraphrase
300
Cannot be proven or dis-proven.
What is Opinion
300
Having emotional involvement or bias (leaning) to one side or the other.
What is Subjective
300
Figuring out what will happen next in a story.
What is Prediction
300
A morpheme.
What is an Affix
400
Has a subject and verb and expresses a complete thought.
What is Complete Sentence
400
The value of an opinion depends on how well it is ___________.
What is Supported
400
Believable
What is Credible
400
Sound/symbol relationship used to decode words.
What is Phonetic Analysis
400
A leaning of toward one side or the other in an argument or position on a subject.
What is Bias
500
The two main kinds of changes you make when you paraphrase.
What is: Substitiue new words for the writer's words - use synonyms and make a different word order
500
The 3 reasons an author writes.
What are to Entertain, Persuade, and Inform
500
When making an evaluation, it is important for the information to be _______ and _______.
What is Reliable and Credible
500
Name two things you can do to tell how credible or believable an argument is supported.
What is: 1. What type of support is used? 2. How well is the argument supported? 3. How objective is the support?
500
Name 2 things you can do when making a prediction about a reading passage.
What is: 1. Think about the title of the story, illustrations and cover. 2. Tell several things that could happen next. 3. Don't be afraid to take a risk. 4. Look for clues left by the author.