Unit 2 Informational Vocabulary

What is informational writing?

• Writing that informs the reader or explains about a topic

• Writing that tells a story

• Writing that convinces the reader about a point of view

• Writing that describes using sensory details

Another name for "informational" writing is...

• explanatory

• narrative

• argumentative

• exclamatory

Research is the ____________ step in the informational writing process.

• first

• last

• third

• fifth

Research involves looking for credible ________ on a given topic

• sources

• cites

• conclusions

• outlines

If I cite information from a news article, that article is a ______ for my essay.

• source

• outline

• fact

• annotation

After finding relevant sources through research, the next step is to...

• annotate the sources

• write your essay

• plagiarize the sources

• make an outline

Which of the following could be a way to annotate a text?

• highlight relevant information

• make notes in the margin

• underline important quotes

• all of these are ways to annotate a text

If a fact is relevant to your topic, that means it is...

• closely connected to your topic

• loosely connected to your topic

• has nothing to do with your topic

• closely connected to the book you are reading

Once you have annotated your sources, your next step is to

• analyze the relevant information

• answer the research question

• write a first draft

• revise and edit

When you explain how different ideas relate to each other in a way that makes sense, that process is called...

• analysis

• annotation

• drafting

• paraphrasing