8th Grade RLA: Unit 06 Flashcards

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What is the intended target group for a message, regardless of the medium?

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audience

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What is the intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns, text and graphic features, sentence structures, devices, and language to create an effective written work; and may vary by genre?

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author's craft

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What is the reason an author writes about a particular topic; the reason an author includes particular details, features, or devices in a work?

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author's purpose

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What is a particular inclination, feeling, or opinion about a subject that is often preconceived or unreasoned?

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bias

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Reference to the author’s name, title of work, date published, publisher, and/or page numbers of quoted or paraphrased text in a shortened in-text notation or in a longer bibliographic entry.

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citation

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What is the quality of having reliable and trustworthy characteristics which may be influenced by an author having expertise on a topic, using unbiased and accurate reasoning, evidence, and sources to support ideas, and providing current and up-to-date information?

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credibility

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What is an act of searching for information or knowledge about a particular subject or topic?

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inquiry

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What is the strategic integration of two or more modes of communication to create meaning, including written and spoken texts, images, gestures, music, digital texts and media, and live performances?

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multimodal text

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What does it mean to restate the meaning of something in different words, altering the exact wording of the source and transmitting its ideas or information without evaluation or interpretation?

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paraphrase

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What is it called to present the ideas or words of another as one’s own without crediting the source?

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plagiarize