Informational Writing Vocabulary

Gets the reader interested in your writing.

• detail sentence

• transition

• hook

Subject of the writing in a word or two.

• hook

• topic

• cite

Moves the reader from one paragraph/idea to the next.

• transition

• reasons

• thesis

Using someone else's work in my writing without credit.

• transition

• topic

• plagiarism

List a source of information used in my writing.

• hook

• cite

• topic sentence

Gives more information about a topic or reason.

• detail sentence

• closing sentence

• topic sentence

A sentence that states the main/central idea of a piece of writing.

• reasons

• thesis

• topic

First sentence in a paragraph that tells what it is about.

• detail sentence

• topic sentence

• closing sentence

Points that help the writer explain the main idea of a paper.

• hook

• domain-specific vocabulary

• reasons

Wraps up a paragraph or piece of writing.

• closing sentence

• detail sentence

• topic sentence