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Academic Language1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Analysis | the act of breaking into smaller components for the purpose of study or examination |
| Citation | a reference from a text brought forward as a support (more useful when it includes the line number, page number, paragraph number, and/or author-especially when reading more than one text on the same topic or theme) |
| Detail | a particular fact or piece of information about something or someone |
| Draw | make |
| Experience | personal contact with a fact or event or an observation of a fact or event |
| Explicitly | clearly stated |
| Fact | a piece of information used as evidence: the truth about a person, place, thing, or idea |
| Inference | a logical assumption based on observed facts from the text and one's own knowledge and/or experience |
| Prior Knowledge | awareness gained before personal contact with a fact, event, or observation |
| Several | three or more |
| Strong | able to perform a specified action well and powerfully |
| Support | to hold up; reinforce |
| Textual Evidence | facts or information used as support for whether a belief or proposition is true or valid |
| Proposition | expresses a judgment of opinion |