Introduction Of Writing Essays Flashcards

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Purpose

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To persuade and complete a fair and honest analysis.

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Confirmatory evidence

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Evidence to support given positions

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Personal narratives

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Memoirs, autobiographies, creative nonfiction

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Informative writing

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To Convey information, doesn’t necessarily have to been written in literary and artful manner.

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Persuasive writing

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Take position and use any tactics to try to persuade an audience.

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Good essay

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Tries to uncover the truth of a situation and tries to convince in a artful matter

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Interpret

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Renders one language into an understandable language

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Uncover assumptions

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Look for assumptions that might not seem like assumptions

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Reveal significant patterns

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Argue for a pattern and it’s importance. Patterns could be linguistic, thematic, generic or even stylistic,

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Reveal patterns breaks

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Shows why patterns are not followed and are either purposefully or inadvertently violated.

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Recontextualize

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Looking at a paper in another context to show how it takes a whole new meaning.

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Generalize

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Argues that that the system text or artifact ECT, represents a larger more expansive universal.

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Argue for effect

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Argue for how a paper might impact a reader ECT

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Extrapolate

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Take the message of a paper and show its silliness, ridiculousness or nonsensicslity through logic “reduction ad absurdum”

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