Unit 5 Vocabulary

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

• Paraphrase

• Key ideas

• Synthesize

• Context

The pattern an author constructs as he or she organizes his or her ideas and provides supporting details. Examples of commonly used patterns are cause and effect, problem and solution, description, and order of importance.

• Organizational patterns

• Multimodal texts

• Style

• Author's purpose

To combine elements and parts to form a coherent whole.

• Synthesize

• Summarize

• Key ideas

• Context

He 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.

• Style

• Multimodal texts

• Author's purpose

• Organizational patterns

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.

• Style

• Organizational patterns

• Author's purpose

• Multimodal texts

The author's particular attitude, either stated or implied in the writing.

• Context

• Tone

• Genre

• Text structure

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

• Style

• Author's purpose

• Organizational patterns

• Audience

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.

• Summarize

• Paraphrase

• Digital text

• Author's craft

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

• Text structure

• Tone

• Context

• Genre

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.

• Paraphrase

• Author's craft

• Digital text

• Summarize