Unit 5 Vocabulary

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

• Genre

• Audience

• key evidence

• student assembly

Intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns, text and graphic features, syntax, devices, and diction to create an effective written work; author’s craft may vary by genre

• author's purpose

• text structure

• key ideas

• author’s craft

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

• key ideas

• style

• author’s purpose

• multi modal text

The words, sentences, or passages that precede or follow a specific word, sentence, or passage

• context

• tone

• text structure

• style

An electronic text read on a computer screen or other electronic device that may include images, sound, video, and other multimodal interactive and embedded elements

• text structure

• tone

• digital text

• organizational pattern

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

• digital text

• summarize

• tone

• editing

Paraphrased or directly quoted detail(s) from a text that supports a reader’s claim, thought, inference, or analysis about the text

• evidence

• summarize

• multi modal text

• synthesize

The type or class of a work, usually categorized by form, technique, or content

• author's purpose

• style

• tone

• genre

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

• style

• author's purpose

• key ideas

• evidence

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

• digital texts

• text structure

• organizational patterns

• multimodal texts