Informational Writing Vocab

What type of writing will we focus on this semester? 

• Argumentative

• Informational 

• None

• Fake 

Transition...

• An educated guess made through observation.

• A word or group of words that relate a topic or idea that came before to what comes next.

• To add more details to an essay.

• Stating the topic of your essay to the audience.

Elaborate...

• An educated guess made through observation.

• This is NOT the answer.

• To state as a fact or as one's belief.

• To add more details to support the evidence in your essay.

Define: Text Evidence

• Planning, drafting, editing, revising, publishing

• Words from the text that support your idea or answers

• States purpose and reason for writing an essay; found in introduction paragraph

• A short retelling in your own words of the main points of a text

 A type of writing that is used to describe or inform is _________________. 

• informational writing

• persuasive essay

• context writing

• personal narrative

a piece of written material to inform the reader that does not utilize characters

• fiction/literary

• nonfiction/informational

• persuade

• assumption

The Rose is the national flower of the US.  Each state has a flower too.  You have just read a story about Mississippi's state flower.  You are to write an essay giving facts and supportive details about Mississippi's flower. What is the flowers name?  How was it chosen? What does it look like?  

• Informative Writing

• Opinion Writing

• Narrative Writing

In what type of writing would this map be shown?

• Argumentative

• Informational

• Narrative

What is the best definition for informational text?

• picture or other image within a text

• important ideas throughout a work that support the central message, theme, tone, etc.

• an act of searching for information or knowledge about a particular subject or topic

• text that presents information in order to inform or educate an audience

What is the best definition for credibility?

• text that presents information in order to inform or educate an audience

• the main point or underlying direction of a piece of writing

• 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

• the pattern an author constructs as he organizes his or her ideas and provides supporting details