Academic Language List 2

Academic Language

List 2

Interpret

• Verb: To explain the meaning of

• Explain, translate, paraphrase, restate in your own words.

• Interpretation (noun)

• Interprets, Interpreted (verbs)

• Interpreting (gerund)

Interpret

As we read we must interpret the text to determine what it means. Is the author being literal or figurative? The interpretation should be based on textual evidence.

Multiple Choice

Think about what it means when you interpret something. Which example below does NOT show someone interpreting something for others.

• Navajo code talkers decoded messages to pass along secret maneuvers during WWII.

• As we analyze poetry, knowing the context or background of the poet is often helpful. This knowledge can illuminate the message the poet is trying to get across.

• They must be led astray so I obscured the true message.

• When you are trying to construe whether or not a text is biased it is important to investigate the author's sources.

Critical

Adjective

Critical

• given to making or expressing unfavorable judgments about things

• needing immediate attention

• of the greatest possible importance

• impossible to do without

• expressing or involving an analysis of the merits and faults of

Many uses of critical

• Critical care unit = Hospital team who care for people in danger of not recovering

• Critical thinker = A person thinking deeply about something from many perspectives

• Critical analysis = studying something from many angles.

• Critical condition = in a perilous state, needing immediate attention and help.

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A critical issue

One danger in sea level increases comes from the Greenland and the Antarctic ice sheets, which contain close to 99 percent of all the world’s fresh water. When the Antarctic melts, climate experts state that sea levels can rise to 200 feet and more. Greenland’s melting ice sheet will add another 20 feet to sea level rise. So all together, the melting of polar ice caps effects would include sea levels rising 220 feet or more worldwide.

Multiple Choice

Which is NOT an example of a critical issue?

• A wound to a major artery causing you to bleed out.

• A completely blocked coronary artery.

• Internal bleeding.

• A hangnail.

Investigate

• Verb

• To search into

• Probe, research, inspect

• To search through

• To check up on

• Investigation, investigating, investigated, investigates

Investigate

• investigate crimes

• investigate root causes

• investigate to prove or disprove a hypothesis

• investigate the relationship between events

• investigate something sus

• Ask questions, research, test

Multiple Choice

Which questions are examples of investigating a topic?

• Why does it occur?

• How does it work?

• When did this first occur?

• What is the impact of the occurrence?

• All of the above.

Factual

• Actually occurring

• concerned with what is actually the case rather than interpretations of or reactions to it.

• Objective

• This word, factual, is an adjective.

Factual

• Someone once said, "When an honest man finds that he has been mistaken, he will either cease to be mistaken or cease to be honest.

• Ask people for their sources. What facts are their statements built upon?

• Only objective statements are considered factual statements.

• Facts, not interpretation of the facts.

Multiple Choice

Which is an example of a factual statement?

• I LOVE COFFEE.

• Hummus tastes delightful.

• Two plus two equals four.

• Green is the most beautiful color.

Present

• The pronunciation of this word varies depending on the context in which it is used.

• pres-ent can be a noun or an adjective and means gift, existing or occurring now, or here.

• pre-sent is a verb that means to show, to demonstrate, to give, to bestow

• Presence, presentable, presentation, presenting, presented, presents, presently

Present

I was present at the presentation of the new information. The presenter looked presentable in their professional attire. Upon the conclusion of the presentation, the presenter presented us with a gift bag full of presents.

Multiple Choice

In which sentence is a derivative of present used incorrectly?

• Presents are usually always appreciated.

• Presenting in front of a large group makes some people nervous.

• Today's presentable went well.

• Presentations can be boring if you are not interested in the topic.

Summarize

• verb

• to give a brief statement about the main idea in your own words.

Summarize

• The back of the novel summarized the plot in an intriguing way.

• Summary, summaries, summarizing, summarized, summarizes, sum it up

Multiple Choice

Which is not a way to summarize.

• Briefly outline who, what, where, when, why and how.

• State the main idea.

• Use a strategy like, Somebody wanted but so then.

• Copy and paste it.

• Describe the most important points in your own words.