Week 12 Vocab

Text Structure

• Errors found in the reasoning of an argument, often in the form of invalid arguments or are irrelevant or flawed points that undermine or weaken the argument.

• Structures used to organize information in a text (examples: chronology, comparison, and cause and effect).

• The components of a story or article that are not the main body of text.

• The most important or central thoughts unifying elements of the text (topic + point).

If an author is describing conflict in a society and offering one or more ways it was solved, what text structure is being used?

• Descriptive
• Chronological/ sequential

• Cause and Effect

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

In a passage, the author details the features of a rainforest and then explains the animals that live there. What text structure is being used?

• Cause and effect
• Compare and contrast

• Problem and solution
• Description

• Chronological/

  sequential order

Which text structure would be used in a passage that describes the positive and negative effects of using technology in the classroom?

• Chronological/ Sequential

• Cause and effect
• Compare and contrast
• Problem and solution
• Description

In an article about environmental pollution, the author first discusses how the pollution started, then moves on to the impact on human health. What is the text structure?

• Comparison and contrast
• Problem and solution
• Chronological/ sequential order

• Cause and effect
• Description

Which text structure would you most likely find words like "first," "next," and "finally"?

• Chronological or sequential

• Problem and solution

• Compare and contrast

• Description

• Cause and effect

Deductive Reasoning

• The arguer begins with specific observations. Then makes a conclusion based on the most likely scenario.

• The arguer leads from one premise (which must be true) to another until reaching a conclusion (claim)

• A type of narration using words like you, your, yours. The reader is made to feel like part of the story.

• a narrator whose credibility is compromised

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

Inductive Reasoning

• The arguer begins with a specific observation. Then draw a more general conclusion (makes a claim) based on the observation(s).

• the most intense, exciting, or important point of a story (part of the plot of a story) 

• The arguer begins with specific observations. Then makes a conclusion based on the most likely scenario.

• a related series of incidents in a literary plot that builds toward the climax.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

Abductive Reasoning

• when a character’s personality, thoughts, and/or actions grow, change, or become more advanced throughout the progression of the story.

• The arguer begins with specific observations. Then makes a conclusion based on the most likely scenario.

• the time, place, and circumstances in which something occurs or develops. 

• Errors found in the reasoning of an argument, often in the form of invalid arguments or are irrelevant or flawed points that undermine or weaken the argument.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

Logical Fallacy

• Structures used to organize information in a text (examples: chronology, comparison, and cause and effect). 

• a related series of incidents in a literary plot that builds toward the climax

• the choice and use of language; words and phrases chosen for their connotative, denotative, figurative, and rhetorical value

• Errors found in the reasoning of an argument, often in the form of invalid arguments or are irrelevant or flawed points that undermine or weaken the argument.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.8.6