JH Info Text Vocab

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Audience

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The intended target group for a message, regardless of the medium.

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Author’s Craft

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Intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns, text and graphic features, sentence structures, devices, and language to create an effective written work; may vary by genre.

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Author’s Purpose

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The reason an author writes about a particular topic (e.g., to persuade, to entertain, to inform, to explain, to analyze, etc.); includes particular details, features, or devices in a work.

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Controlling Idea

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The main point or underlying direction of a piece of writing; makes the reader ask a question that will be answered by reading more or helps understand the author’s purpose.

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Credibility

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The quality of having reliable and trustworthy characteristics, influenced by expertise, unbiased reasoning, evidence, and current information.

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Editing

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A stage in the writing process when a written text is prepared for an audience by attending to and correcting mechanics, grammar, and spelling.

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Graphic Feature

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Picture or other image within a text.

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Informational Text

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A text that presents information in order to explain, clarify, and/or educate.

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Key Idea

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Important ideas throughout a work that support the central message, theme, tone, etc.

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Paraphrase

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Restate the meaning of something in different words, altering the exact wording of the source without evaluation or interpretation.