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Writing
11th Grade
05/29/2013

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Cliche
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an overused expression
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dialogue
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two or more people sapeaking
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Jargon
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technical language used by a specific group
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Objective
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strictly factual and without bias or emotion
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Subjective
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written from a particular point of view
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Negation
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defining something in terms of what it is not
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Academic
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language that is more formal
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connotation
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words associated, contextual meanings
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denotation
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words literal meaning
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colloquial
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language that is more familiar
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narrative
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a story of how something occured
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all of the following are ways to improve narrative EXCEPT
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describe every single detail
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tone
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writers attitude toward its subject
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all are things to think about with college essay except
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they are impressed with sophisticated language
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qualities of diction are all BUT
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style
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level of diction spans from
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formal to informal
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editing
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fixing small errors, putting on final polish
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publishing
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sending out finished copy
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prewriting
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writing down many ideas to choose from
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revising
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seeing writing from the reader point of view
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drafting
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writing to make sense of ideas
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when revising you should be least concerned with
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style
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revise sentences for
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emphasis, concisness, clarity
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factors that guide writing are all except
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tone
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difference between draft and revision
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draft is for writer, revision is for reader
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when revising concentrate on
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length effectiveness eloquence
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revise sentences for
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economy, emphasis, clarity
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Rhetoric
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the art of persuasion
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what are three rhetorical appeals
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ethos, pathos, logos, and reason emotion, and credibility
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what is rhetorical analysis
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examining how a writer crafts an arguement
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why study rhetoric
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all above
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Toulman model can be used for
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cinsider arguements other and improve your own
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conclusion in toulman model is
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claim
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evidence being used in toulman model is
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grounds
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reasioning in toulam model
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warrent
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a good thesis has
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specific, arguable, unified
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which is NOT a good quality
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its unique
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better suits more primal levels of the brain is
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logos
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basic means for recording ideas
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line
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geometrical shapes
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presise, neat, orderly
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vertical line
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alert attention
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horizontal line
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rest
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gently slope
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gradudal change
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synthsis essay is not way for writer to
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none of above
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objective
Definition
statement that is purely factual
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two main components of a good summary
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what does it say
how does it say it
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author power of pictures
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life magazine
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power of pictures was origionally a boook
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false
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power of pictures shows how photos serve many useful ways
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true
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who wrote on photography
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susan sontag
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author of on photography..
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wrote an acclaimed book
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on photography says it is objective
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false
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who wrote photo journalism
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andy grundberg
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main point of photojournalism
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reduces events to faces and reproduces preconceptions
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author of barriers of seeing
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freeman patterson
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author of barriers of seeing is..
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photographer
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what barriers does he identify
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preoccupation with self, labeling, camera, self stimuli
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author of woman waiting to take a photograph
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david eggers
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author of shadow catcher
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scott momaday
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use what to indicate that you have changed something
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brackets
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use what to show you removed something
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... ellipsis
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pathos
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emotional appeal, advertizing appeals, color symbolizm
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ethos
Definition
credibility using expert sources
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classification
Definition
arrangement of info into groups or categories in order to make clear the relations
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illistration
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puts abstract thoughts into ideas
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narraration
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telling a story, audience needs to relate, needs conflict
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disease of american writing
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clutter
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three things when writing
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audience purpose subject
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descrptiopn
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use figurative lanugage to help reader relate
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cocculsion should
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reinforce purpose
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start narrative with
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thesis
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