Reading Flashcards
Narrative writing
Provides account of events and experience over time or an event.
Can be fiction or nonfiction.
Written to entertain.
Expository writing
Explain or inform a reader about a topic.
Only facts are used, not opinions.
Difference between technical and informative writing:
Informative: gives general information, such as a brochure
Technical: instructional, detailed and precise information
Difference between line and bar chart.
Line chart: linear format
Bar chart: vertical bars
Primary source
Autobiography Original account of someone who witnessed or experienced an event. -First publication of scientific study. -Letters between two people. -A diary. -Historical documents -include experiment results, statistical data, eyewitness accounts, surveys, interviews and legal documents. - researcher results of clinical trials
Secondary source
Biography
Some examples include (literature) reviews, opinion pieces, documentaries, television broadcasts and books
Tertiary sources
sources that index, abstract, organize, compile, or digest other sources.
Examples of Tertiary Sources:
Some reference materials.
Dictionaries/encyclopedias (may also be secondary), almanacs, fact books, Wikipedia, bibliographies (may also be secondary), directories, guidebooks, manuals, handbooks, and textbooks (may be secondary), indexing and abstracting sources.
Quarternary sources
Do not exist
Simile
Comparison using the words “like” or “as”
Run like the wind
Metaphor
Comparison without using “like” or “as”
You are such a snake
Hyperbole
Exaggeration
He jumped as high as the sky.
Personification
Giving inanimate objects human characteristics.
