Writing Key Terms (Set #3)
18. Narrative
A real or imaginary story that may be about a situation.
source
A source is a book, article, website person, or a piece of media that contains information.
37. Source
A source is a book, article, website, person, or a piece ofmediathatcontainsinfomation
12. Topic
A topic is what a piece of writing is about.
2.Argument
An arguement is the main statement of an arguementiative text, wich usually appears in the introduction. The arguement is the main point on wich the writer will develop his/her work in order to convince readers.
20. Event
An event is a single thing that happens to a character sees. For example, John caught a soccer ball is an event. It is a single thing that happened to the character John.
19. Experience
An experience is an event or series of events that happen to or are seen by a character. In a narrative, characters learn, grow, or find meaning by going through an experience. Any experience in a narrative may be described as a single event or as a series of events. A character may have an experience that he or she is apart of. A character may watch or observe an experience without being apart of it. A narrative may include more than one experience.
3.Claims
Claims are ideas and opinions set forth by the writer. For example, a writer could make the claim that the school cafeteria is too expensive.
32. Conclusion
Every story needs to have an end. The end can be anywhere the writer chooses to stop writing. But the reader needs to feel like the story is over. Good writers create this feeling of ending with a conclusion. In a conclusion, the events of the story stop, and the reader understands one or more of these ideas; what the story meant, what characters learned, how characters felt about the experience, how characters changed, and what the reader can learn from the story.
7. Credible Source
For a claim to be effective, it must be supported with a credible source. Credible Sources provide evidence and facts that support the writers claim.
11. Informational/explanatory text
Forms of writing that inform the reader or explain something are known as informational/explanatory texts.
21. Orient the Reader
Good writers engage or interest the readers and pull them into the narrative by sharing important information that will allow readers to understand what follows
28. Description
Good writers use description to help the reader imagine the characters, settings, and
26. Narrative techniques
Narrative Techniques are the tools writers use to create interesting experiences, events, and characters in a story.
5.Organization
In writing, the organization helps present ideas and information more easily. Writers use transitions to organize information. Also, an entire piece of writing has an organizational structure to it.
13. Formatting
Is the way in which a piece of writing is organized, designed, and arranged. A writer can headings and subheadings to organize the writing and present the information in a clear way.
39. Paraphrase
It means to use someone else's ideas and express those ideas in your own words.
29.Pacing
Pacing is the speed at which the story is told. The pacing is influenced by the description of characters, setting, and thoughts or reflections; the use of sensory language; the number of telling details related; the length of sentences, paragraphs, and scenes; dialogue, and how many words or sentences a character speaks at one time; and the use of precise word choice. Writers may choose to slow the pace in one part of the narrative and speed up the pace in another or to keep a consistent pace throughout the narrative
31.Sensory Language
Sensory Language describes concrete words and phrases in a way that allows the reader to experience the way things look, sound, smell, taste, or feel through imagination. Good writers share sensory details to help the reader paint a picture of what it would be like to experience the story.
10. Concluding Statement
The conclusion is the end of a piece of writing. The concluding statement should sum up the main purpose of the writing.
4.Introduction
The introduction is the beginning of a peice of writing. The introduction should let readers know what they will be reading about, and it should set up the main idea, or thesis, of the writing.
33. Audience
The people who will be reading the story
23. Narrator
The person who is telling the story
30. Transitional words and phrases
The reader needs clues in a story to help them know how time is passing and how events are in order. Transitional words and phrases link one idea to the next and help the reader understand how time is passing in the story. Transitional words and phrases also make clear the order in which events happen. Examples of transitional words are first, next, before, during, and finally.
6. Reasons
Reasons are the evidence given to support a writer's claims.
35. Revision
Revision is the process of editing and rewriting a piece of writing. All good writing requires revision to catch mistakes and clarify ideas.
9.Formal style
a style of writing or speaking that is appropriate for formal communication such as in academics or business.
14. Multimedia
art, presentations, photographs, charts, and video
38. Credibility
credible sources provide evidence and facts that support the writer's claim
36. Research
gathering information in order to learn more about a topic
24. Characters
persons,things, or beings in stories
8. Relationships
refers to the ways in which ideas are connected
41. Evidence
something that proves the truth of something else
17. Formal Style
style used in formal writing such as an essay or research paper or formal letter
40. Plagiarism
the use of another's original words or ideas as though they were your own
16. Precise Language
the use of language to give more specificity and exactness in communicating
22. Introduction
when writers share
15. Transition
word, phrase, or clause that links one idea to the next
1. Argumentative Texts
Argumentative texts are forms of writing in which the writer makes a claim and supports that claim with reasons and evidence.
34. Purpose
The writer's intention for his or her piece of writing