Unit 8 Vocab.

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

• author's craft

• audience

• author's purpose

• genre

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

• multimodal text

• informational text

• argumentative text

• literary text

intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns, text and graphic features, sentence structures, devices, and language to create an effective written work; author’s craft may vary by genre

• genre

• argumentative text

• author's purpose

• author's craft

written works that are generally recognized as having artistic value. Basic forms of literary texts include prose fiction, drama, poetry, and literary non-fiction.

• credibility

• argumentative text

• literary text

• author's purpose

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

• author's purpose

• audience

• argumentative text

• literary text

a text in which the writer develops and defends a position or debates a topic using logic and persuasion

• literary text

• argumentative text

• informational text

• evidence

a text that presents information in order to explain, clarify, and/or educate

• literary text

• argumentative text

• informational text

• multimodal text

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

• audience

• author's craft

• evidence

• credibility

specific details or facts that support an inference or idea

• evidence

• genre

• audience

• credibility

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

• audience

• genre

• credibility

• author's purpose