Academic Vocab. Vol. 1

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Annotation

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Notes added to a text while participating in active reading

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Argument

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A statement, reason, or fact for or against a point

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Audience

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The persons reached by a book, radio or television broadcast, etc.

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Central idea

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The main idea of a writing; the point the author wants you to remember most

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Citation

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A quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work

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Claim

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An assertion of something as a fact

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Connotative

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Signifying or suggestive of an associative or secondary meaning in addition to the primary meaning

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Counterclaim

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A claim made to rebut a previous claim

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Credibility

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The quality of being trusted and believed in

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Denotative

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The explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression