Academic vocabulary

Writing that is ________ and ________-_ contains ideas that are related to or build on one another in an order that makes sense. Transition words help create cohesion because they link your ideas from one sentence or paragraph to another.

• logical and cohesive

• reasonable and true

• lies and facts

an event, action, or feeling that makes something happen and then what happens

• conflict - situation - problem

• climax

• exposition

• cause/effect

____________ is the specific procedures or techniques used to identify, select, process, and analyze information about a topic. In a research paper, this section allows the reader to critically evaluate a study's overall validity and reliability.

• Abstract

• Introduction

• Methodology

• Hypothesis

the reason an author writes about a particular topic

• claim

• author's purpose

• audience

• bandwagon appeal

the dominant impression or the universal, generic truth found in a text.

• motif
• theme
• tone
• genre

a life lesson or message of a text

• theme

• personification

• hyperbole

• allusion

controversy

• debate

• volunteer

• allegiance

• conference

An individual fact, feature, or item

• main idea

• detail

• support

• plot

The use of effective and precise language

The words “like” and “well”, and the phrase “you know” share many of the same functions as filled pauses such as “eh” and “em”. What is the specific term for these words?

• Flexible wording

• Discourse markers

• Structural phrases

• None of the above