Vocabulary
What is the meaning of the word
Arduous?
extremely difficult to achieve
What is a central idea?
An overarching message or truth that is specific to a text.
What is author’s task?
The assignment or work that an author needs to do
What is the central idea of “500 Miles in a Self-Driving Car.”
The new Audi self-driving car has many technologies that will improve the way people view cars.
Which sentence has the most appropriate tone for persuading people to recycle?
If we recycle, we are using natural resources more responsibly for the sake of future generations.
What is the meaning of the word
Mitigating?
lessening the effect or force of
What is the audience?
the person or people the author is trying to persuade—those who will receive the message.
What is Freewriting?
When you freewrite, you write continuously about whatever comes to mind regarding possible topics for your paper.
How is rhetoric used in “The Key to Stop Bullying: Popular Kids.”?
The author wants to emphasize the importance of the seed students to the success of the study.
Which parts of the writing process are typically used to generate ideas at the beginning of a project?
What is the meaning of the word
Deplete?
to use up or greatly reduce the supply of
What is a cause-and-effect structure?
It helps you analyze an event or situation.
What is a Introduction?
Introductions can begin with a reference to current events, a controversial topic, a personal anecdote, some startling bit of information, or something else that will catch your readers’ eye and entice them to continue reading your paper.
Read the section Gas Shortages Spark Interest in Electric Vehicles in “The History of the Electric Car.”
Which options show excerpts from the section that best depict a cause-and-effect structure?
Soaring oil prices and gasoline shortages—peaking with the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo—created a growing interest in lowering the U.S.’s dependence on foreign oil and finding homegrown sources of fuel.
Read “The History of the Electric Car.”
Which options correctly analyze the effectiveness of the article’s chronological structure?
Putting the information about the development of the electric car into a chronological structure helps the reader to keep track of the important individual events leading up to the electric cars that are in production today.
What is the meaning of the word
Encroach?
to advance or intrude beyond set limits
What is a theme?
It is the central message or universal truth conveyed by a text. In other words, a theme can be a lesson that readers learn after reading a text.
What is an Argument?
A type of writing, emphasizes logic, specifically claims, reasons, evidence and, counterclaims. As a writer of argument.
Which option most clearly states a theme of the article “What Does the ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ Mean in the Declaration of Independence?”
Happiness is a natural state that deserves protection.
To say that self-esteem can be either high or low is not accurate, the more accurate way to look at self-esteem is to see it as healthy or unhealthy.
Which option corrects the error in the sentence?
To say that self-esteem can be either high or low is not accurate; the more accurate way to look at self-esteem is to see it as healthy or unhealthy.
What is the meaning of the word
Wantonly?
in a way that shows a lack of mercy or disregard of risk
What is a Claim?
It is the primary statement that is to be proved through the presentation of an argument. A claim should be controversial.
What is Tone?
Tone is the author's attitude toward the topic.
Jasmine is writing a letter to the editor in support of her town’s plans to build a new public theater in the park.
Which statement would make the most effective call to action in Jasmine’s letter?
If you would like to see the arts thrive, please make a donation to the public theater fund.
Read the excerpt from a letter to the editor.
The issue of the water quality in Echo Lake is of grave concern to our community. Test results show dangerous levels of algae, which is caused by pollution from common household chemicals. However, the families living on Echo Lake’s shoreline are not the ones to blame.
Which sentence could be added to the end of this letter to maintain a consistent tone?
We must all assume responsibility for returning Echo Lake to its former pristine state.