The A-LIST: Essential Academic Words

to break something down methodically into parts

• Describe

• Evaluate

• Analyze

• Transform

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to provide reasons or evidence to support or oppose

• Argue

• Explain

• Analyze

• Interpret

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8.1.8.2

to identify similarities or differences between items

• Determine

• Imagine

• Compare/Contrast

• Summarize

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8.1.8.2

to report what one observes or does

• Explain

• Interpret

• Describe

• Summarize

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8.1.8.2

to consider all possible options, perspectives, results

• Support

• Determined

• Analyze

• Imagine

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8.1.8.2

to improve the quality to substance of

• Explain

• Argue

• Develop

• Transform

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8.1.8.2

to establish value, amount, importance, or effectiveness

• Explain

• Describe

• Evaluate

• Interpret

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8.1.8.2

to provide reasons for what happened or for one's actions

• Explain

• Argue

• Evaluate

• Support

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8.1.8.2

to make whole by combining the different parts into one

• Transform

• Integrate

• Organize

• Compare/Contrast

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8.1.8.2

to draw from a text or data set some meaning or significance

• Organize

• Integrate

• Interpret

• Compare/Contrast

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