Unit 1 Academic Vocabulary

What is the definition of the word annotating?

• to reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main ideas
• marking a text with notes and/or comments
• a logical guess made by connecting bits of information
• restate the meaning of something in different words

What is the definition of the word audience?

• the words, sentences, or passages that precede or follow a specific word, sentence, or passage
• the process of two or more people working together to create or achieve the same thing
• a credible or believable source
• the intended group for a message

What is the definition of the word author's purpose?

• the reason an author writes about a particular topic
• a text with the quality of having reliable and trustworthy information or experience
• an act of searching for information or knowledge about a particular subject or topic
• important ideas throughout a work that support the central message, theme, tone, etc.

What is the definition of the word bias?

• restate the meaning of something in different words
• to present the ideas or words of another as one’s own without crediting the source
• a particular inclination, feeling, or opinion about a subject that is often preconceived or unreasoned
• the words, sentences, or passages that precede or follow a specific word, sentence, or passage

What is the definition of the word citation?

• a credible or believable source
• a reference to the author’s name, title of work, date published, publisher, and/or page numbers of quoted or paraphrased text in a shortened in-text notation or in a longer bibliographic entry
• to combine elements and parts to form a coherent whole
• marking a text with notes and/or comments

What is the definition of the word collaboration?

• the process of two or more people working together to create or achieve the same thing
• the study skill of outlining or summarizing the ideas of a source of information to aid in the retention of ideas
• any written or digital communication exchanged between two or more people in the form of a letter, e-mail, fax, etc.
• written/spoken explanations or interpretations that further develop an idea

What is the definition of the word commentary?

• marking a text with notes and/or comments
• to reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main ideas
• restate the meaning of something in different words
• written/spoken explanations or interpretations that further develop an idea

What is the definition of the word context?

• important ideas throughout a work that support the central message, theme, tone, etc.
• a form of inference in which the reader gathers information, considers the general thoughts or ideas, and comes to a decision
• the words, sentences, or passages that precede or follow a specific word, sentence, or passage
• a credible or believable source

Which term describes the exchange of written communication (for example letters and emails)?

• collaboration
• citation
• correspondence
• commentary

What is the definition of the word credibility?

• the quality of having reliable and trustworthy characteristics
• a particular inclination, feeling, or opinion about a subject that is often preconceived or unreasoned
• the process of two or more people working together to create or achieve the same thing
• the intended group for a message