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General Writing Term
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word - the word's dictionary definition |
| Informal | not intended to be evaluated ; sometimes not intended to be read , used primarily to explore ideas or communicate casually with friends and aquaintances |
| Fact | a thing known to be indisputable - has occurred, it has an actual existence; information presented as having an objective reality |
| Voice | structuring writing stanza formation; traditionally done in poetry |
| Form | the format used to publish the writing |
| Support Sentences | gives specific details that support the main idea ; uses sensory ,facts and/or examples |
| Prose | writing that uses traditional paragraph formation such as essays, narratives , expository, and persuasive writing |
| Review/Edit | read draft in different orders; check for spelling;punctuation, and grammar |
| Revise | tighten the syntax of the sentence, add details, reorganize |
| Publish | how your writing piece gets to its audience |
| Diction | word choice and style for a particular purpose |
| Syntax | the way in which a sentence is stuctured |
| Clincher sentence | the last sentence of the paragrph |
| Opinion | a view or judgement formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge |
| Formal | intended to be evaluated by someone who expects academic or business like argument and presentation |
| Draft | collecting ideas on graphic , lists , observations, free-writes,outlines |
| Fluency | the way individual words and phrases sound together within the sentence with the goal to write smoothly from word to word phrase to phrase and sentence and sentence in order to communicate clearly |
| intended to the cadence, syntax,vernacular, clang; dialect of spoken coneversations | |
| Draft | write out the topic in a paragraphs with an organized strategy |
| Topic Sentence | where the main idea is represented in a paragraph |
| Style | the arrangement of sentences, phrases, words and punctuation, for a particular purpose in writing |
| Topic | subject matter and focus of the writing piece |
| Audience | person or group the writing piece is intended for |
| Connotation | the implied meaning or intension of a term; an idea or feeling that a word invokes |
| Code Shifting | moving between languages to speak and write for the intended |
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