8th Grade RLA: Unit 01 Flashcards

Front

What is the term for 'adding notes or comments to a text to mark significant features and/or personal commentary'?

Back

annotating

Front

What is the intended target group for a message, regardless of the medium, called?

Back

audience

Front

What is the process of two or more people working together to create or achieve the same thing wherein each member speaks, is heard, and takes ownership of the resulting product or activity?

Back

collaboration

Front

What is any written or digital communication exchanged between two or more people in the form of a letter, e-mail, fax, etc., called?

Back

correspondence

Front

What is a stage in the writing process when a written text is prepared for an audience by attending to and correcting mechanics, grammar, and spelling?

Back

editing

Front

What is a logical guess made by connecting bits of information called?

Back

inference

Front

What are important ideas throughout a work that support the central message, theme, tone, etc., called?

Back

key idea

Front

What does it mean to restate the meaning of something in different words, altering the exact wording of the source and transmitting its ideas or information without evaluation or interpretation?

Back

paraphrase

Front

What is a form of inference in which the reader gathers and analyzes details to anticipate and foresee forthcoming events and information?

Back

prediction

Front

What does it mean to reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main idea, while still attributing summarized ideas to the original source?

Back

summarize/summary