Academic Vocabulary #3 (Smarter Balanced Vocab)

The reason for writing: they may want to amuse the reader, to persuade the reader, to inform the reader, or to satirize a condition.

• author's intent or author's purpose

• contradict

• excerpt

• justify

to say the opposite of what someone else has said : deny the truth of

• author's intent or author's purpose

• contradict

• excerpt

• justify

a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied

• author's intent or author's purpose

• contradict

• excerpt

• justify

to prove or show to be just, right, or reasonable

• author's intent or author's purpose

• contradict

• excerpt

• justify

a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form (usually your own words)

• paraphrase

• relevant

• revise

• tone

having significant information on the matter at hand

• paraphrase

• relevant

• revise

• tone

to look over again in order to correct or improve

• paraphrase

• relevant

• revise

• tone

style or manner of expression; shows the attitude toward something

• paraphrase

• relevant

• revise

• tone

ending, final, completion, conclusion

• closure

• effective (beginnings and endings)

• excerpt

• revise

successful in producing a desired or intended result

• closure

• effective (beginnings and endings)

• excerpt

• revise