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| anecdote | a brief narration used as an example |
| journalistic questions | Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? |
| simile | a figure of speech that compares 2 unlike things using "like" or "as" |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that makes an implied comparison |
| dominant impression | the quality the descriptive details are meant to convey |
| objective details | points that give a factual, unemotional picture of what is described |
| subjective details | points that give a emotional view of what is being described |
| sensory details | description that appeals to any of the 5 senses |
| progressive order | the arrangement of details from the least important or compelling points to the most important |
| spatial order | the arrangement of details across space (top to bottom, left to right, etc.) |
| chronological order | the arrangement of details according to how you move through a place (what you come to first, second, etc.) |
| argumentation | writing that is a logical way of asserting the soundness of a debatable position, belief, or conclusion |
| persuasion | uses appeals to emotions, values, and beliefs to convince a reader to act a particular way |
| logos | sound reasoning, facts, evidence, statistics, and authoritative statements used to back up an assertion |
| ethos | establishing the reliability and trustworthiness of the writer of an argument |
| pathos | the appeal to the emotions, attitudes, beliefs and values of a reader |
| inductive reasoning | a form of reasoning that moves from specific evidence to a general conclusion |
| deductive reasoning | a form of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific and then to a conclusion |
| thesis | the central point or controlling idea of an essay |
| introduction | one or more paragraphs that open an essay |
| editing | the process of finding and correcting errors in grammar, usage, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling |
| revising | the process of evaluating and making changes in a draft's content, organization, and expression of ideas to improve the essay |
| plagiarism | a form of academic dishonesty that occurs when a person submits another's words, ideas, or work as his or her own, or when a person fails to provide documentation of borrowed material |
| audience | the readers for a particular piece of writing |
| description | writing that tells about the physical characteristics of a person, place, or thing |
| narration | writing that tells a story |
| flashback | a shift back into a past event |
| classification | writing about individual items sorted into categories |
| division | writing that describes an item that is broken down into parts |
| comparison | writing that tells the similarities between 2 things |
| contrast | writing that tells the differences between 2 things |
| analogy | a form of comparison that explains an unfamiliar element by comparing it to something familiar |
| basis of comparison | a similarity between 2 or more things that enables a writer to compare them |
| principle of classification | the quality the items have in common in a classification or division essay |
| antithesis | a viewpoint opposite to the one expressed in a thesis |
| fallacy | a statement that resembles a logical argument but is actually flawed |
| refutation | the attempt to counter an opposing argument by revealing its weaknesses |
| Rogerian argument | a strategy that rejects the adversarial approach in arguments by acknowledging the validity of opposing positions |
| syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning |
