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| Voice | the unique ways you communicate, whether through speech, writing, artwork, singing, and so on (for our purposes, especially speech and writing) |
| Academic Voice | the “voice” that you use in school, which still reflects your identity but uses more formality |
| Active Listening | listening to gain new information or to engage in a conversation with others |
| Academic Conversation | conversation on school topics in order to get a deeper appreciation of a topic by engaging with a wide variety of different perspectives |
| Consensus | reaching a conclusion that no one in the conversation absolutely opposes (in other words, you don’t agree about everything, but you at least agree on a particular aspect of the topic) |
| Tone | the speaker’s or writer’s attitude towards their subject matter |
| Context | the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea (the background information) |
| Audience | who you are addressing in your speaking or writing (helps form context) |
| Occasion | the time, place, and situation you a speaking or writing in (helps form context) |
| Subject | the topic of your text; what you want to discuss (helps form context) |
| Purpose | what you want to accomplish with your speaking or writing (helps form context) |
| Genre | different types of literary texts--fiction (to tell a story), poetry (to artfully express an idea), or drama (to tell a story that will be performed) |
| Mode | different types of nonfiction texts--argument (to persuade), exposition (to explain), and narration (to tell a true story) |
| Mythology | a genre that falls somewhere between fiction and nonfiction and is intended to tell a symbolic story that reveals a universal truth |
| Diction | an author’s word choice |
| Denotation | the dictionary definition of a word |
| Connotation | the cultural or emotional associations of a word |
| Loaded Term | a word that has very strong connotation |
| Syntax | how words are combined into sentences; word order |
| Subordination | a way of combining ideas to show that one idea is of less importance than another and is dependent upon another |
| Coordination | a way of combining ideas to show that two ideas are connected and of equal importance |
| Topic Sentence | the opening sentence(s) of a paragraph that establish the topic that will be talked about in the paragraph |
| Unity | the paragraph is about a single subject, and all sentences in the paragraph clearly deal with that subject |
| Coherence | the ideas within a paragraph flow logically and clearly, one thought leading to another |
| Transition Words | words and phrases that help a reader move easily through your writing from one sentence to another and one paragraph to another |
