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| firsthand records of events, theories,opinions, or actions. May come in the form of either published or unpublished documents, recordings, or artifacts; they must be current in relation to the events, people, or information that is at issue. Anything written hundreds of years after event is NOT primary source. Primary sources may NOT always be accurate. Primarysources are often ambiguous and fragmentary, making them difficult to analyze. |
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| information based on real, provable events, or situtaions. |
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| beliefs based on personal judgements, rather than on indisputable facts. |
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| are opinions or beiefs that affect a person's ability to make fair,unclouded judgmens or decisions. |
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| are oversimplified opinions,that do not account for indivudual dfferences, about an entire group of people or tings. |
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| a style in which the reader carefully analyzes the text,judging its credibility and the author's intentions, rather than simply accepting the material as fact, is generally perferable to passive reading. |
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| main reaon for writing a particuar piece. |
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| tells a story, or relates a chain of events. |
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| introduces or explains a subject,gives groundwork information that is necessary for understanding later ideas,or analyzes information objectively. |
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| passes along precise information,usually about a particular topic,and usually in a formal or semiforal style. |
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| tries to get the reader to agree with the author. |
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| the general subject matter covered by the work. |
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| the work's speciic message. It is the reason the text was written. |
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| explains the main idea with details, examples, facts, quotes and statistics. |
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| are important subjects that a written work touches upon. Usually can be expressed in one word: lonliness, depression, friendship, |
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| Usually the first sentence of the paragraph and tells generally what the paragraph is about. Answers these questions: What is the writer trying to say? What is the point of s specific paragraph, or the text as a whole? |
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| also called the concluding sentence, sums up the point of the text or draws a conslusion about the information in the text. |
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| is a judgment, and must be supported by the strongest evidence possible. You will be asked to: find an example, note contrast, generalize, recognize cause and effect, detect mood, see analogy, identify time and place relationships, make comarision, anticipate outcome. |
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| is an "educated guess" based upoin evidence that is less conclusive. Requires that you read "between the lines" and use previously acquired knowledge and past experiences to fully comprehend the message of the text. |
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| is the reader's educated guess about the outcome of the situation, based in his/her own expreiences and the information presented in the text. |
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