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Reading and Responding Academic Terminology

Reading and Responding Academic Terminology. Take notes on these terms – then save with your Article of the Week Packets. 1. c lose read. When you close read, you observe facts and details about the text.  focus on a particular passage, or on the text as a whole

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Reading and Responding Academic Terminology

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  1. Reading and Responding Academic Terminology Take notes on these terms – then save with your Article of the Week Packets

  2. 1. close read • When you close read, you observe facts and details about the text. •  focus on a particular passage, or on the text as a whole • aim may be to notice all striking features of the text, or… •  to notice only selected features of the text • (this is the first step before interpreting your observations)

  3. 2. annotation • "Annotating" means underlining or highlighting key words and phrases • anything that strikes you as surprising or significant, or… that raises questions • and… • making notes in the margins

  4. 3. author’s purpose (a.k.a., author’s intent) • author’s reason for writing • Ask yourself… • What is the author attempting to achieve by writing?

  5. 4. claim • something that the author is trying to convince the reader of

  6. 5. citation/to cite • the act of quoting an authority on a subject

  7. 6. analysis/to analyze • to study something closely and carefully • to learn the nature and relationship of its parts by a close and careful examination

  8. 7. explicit • clear and complete • leaving no doubt about the meaning

  9. 8. inference • a conclusion or opinion that is formed because of known facts or evidence in a text combined with knowledge of past experiences

  10. 9. summary • a brief statement of the most important information in a piece of writing

  11. 10. audience • Those people you are trying to reach with your writing/speaking

  12. 11. genre • the forms of expository prose used to convey a body of information about a particular subject

  13. 12. T.A.G. T.A.G. • Topic (or Title) Don’t forget • Audience your T.A.G. • Genre (T.A.G.your sources… when writing in response to text)

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