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English 111
writing 10 core concepts
Term | Definition |
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paraphrase | A restatement of a text, passage,or work giving the meaning in another form |
Summary | is a condensed version of a source text that conveys only a main ideas or information from that text in the writers own words. Writers summarize when they need to convey. |
Discussion | a section in which the results, or findings, re explained |
Results | an explanation of what the authors learned by conduction the study; sometimes called findings |
Review of the litetature | a discussion of scholarly texts that ore relevant to the author's specific topic; this selection places the author's contribution in the context of what other the subjectscholars have written about |
Statment of the problem | an introductory section that identifies the specific problem or question the author addresses in the article |
Method | a description of the procedure the author used to conduct the study. Usually describes the place, participants,the kinds of data collected and analized |
Bibliography | the list of text that the author has cited |
Abstract | A summary of the article that appears after the title and byline but before the main text |
Skimming | trying to get a scene of the big picture |