Academic Vocabulary: U4W1

a text type that seeks to explain or inform.

• author's purpose

• expository text

• source

• distinct

writing that tells about real people, places, and events.

• reference materials

• consistent

• nonfiction

• author's purpose

believable or plausible.

• source

• credible/credibility

• source

• expository text

different or set apart; separate.

• generalization

• distinct

• expository text

• source

text containing facts and information, items that you can look at to find information.

• reference materials

• distinct

• generalization

• bibliography

a statement or idea that is general or nonspecific.

• generalization

• source

• credible/credibility

• consistent

the reason the author created the writing.

• author's purpose

• distinct

• reference materials

• consistent

having a regular style or pattern; not changing.

• nonfiction

• source

• consistent

• bibliography

any person, place, or thing by which something is supplied.

• source

• bibliography

• credible/credibility

• generalization

a list of writings with time and place of publication.

• consistent

• nonfiction

• source

• bibliography