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30 Cards in this Set
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What is the purpose of communication?
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The purpose of communication is to send your message effectively to the receiver/readers so the receiver can understand the message.
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Wht is general different from specific?
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What is different general frorn specific is that a general is too broad and needs specific ideas to support or explain the topic. Specific are narrow, specific ideas to support the topic.
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How is topic different from supporting Details?
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What is different topic from supporting details is that topic is the general subject matter of a reading passage, and supporting details are specific ideas to develop, explain or support the main idea.
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What is a topic sentence?
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The topic is a single sentence that states the topic and words that qualify the topic by revealing the author's opinion about the topic.
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What's the difference between topic and supporting datails?
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The difference between the topic and supporting deatils is that topic is the general subject mater of a reading passage and supporting details explain, develop and ilustrate the main idea.
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Question for topic.
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Who or what is the paragraph mostly about?
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Question for main idea.
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what's the author's controlling point about the topic?
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What is the job of the supporting details?
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Are specific ideas that explain, develop or support the main idea.
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What does a major supporting detail do?
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Directly explains, develop, or illustrates the main idea.
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How is minor supporting details different form major supporting detail?
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How is different minor supporting details from major major details is that minor details add interest, give descriptions, examples, testimonies and they support the major suporting deatils.
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What is the difference between an outline and a concept map?
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What is difrent from an outline and a concept map is that an outline shows the relationships among the main idea, major details and minor details. A concept map is a diagram that show the flow of ideas from main idea to the supporting details.
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In an outline, when do you use Roman numerals, Capital letters and Arabic number?
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When I use Roman numerals, Capital letters and arabic numbers, is for a formal outline.
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What words signal the main idea?
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The words the signal the main idea are; few causes, a number of reasons, several steps or several kinds.
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What words signal the supporting details?
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The words the signal the supporting details are: over, next or finally.
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What is a fact?
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Fact is a specific detail that is true based on objective proof.
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What is a objective proof?
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Objective proof can be physical evidence, an eyewitness account, or the result of an accepted scientific method.
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What is the difference between a fact and an opinion?
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What is different between a fact and an opinion is that a fact is specific detail that is true based on objective proof. Opinion is an interpretation, value judgment, or believe that can be proved or disproved.
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What is bias?
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Bias is the way you interpret the world.
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What are two kinds of opinions?
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The two kinds of opinios are: informed and expert opinions.
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Why would anyone pass on false fact?
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The reason why would anyone pass false fact is, to mislead the reader with false impression of the facts.
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Informed opinion
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Is developed by gathering and analyzing evidence.
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Expert opinion.
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Is develop through much training and extensive knowledge in a given field.
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what is the author's tone?
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Is the author's attitude towards the topic.
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How does an author coveys her/his tone?
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The author coveys her/his tone by tone and purpose.
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What does it mean for words to have a subjective tone?
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What it means for words to have a subjective tone is by describing feelings, judgments or opinions.
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What does it mean for an author to have an objective tone?
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What it means for the author to have an objective tone is to present facts and reasonable explanotions.
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What are the three purposes of writing?
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The three purposes of writing are to inform, persuade and entertain.
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How do you find an author's primary purpose for writing?
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How I find an author's primary purpose for writing is, by knowing that is the main reason the author writes the passage.
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What is irony?
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Irony occurs when the author's state one thing but imply the opposite.
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What are the two kinds of irony?
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The two kinds of irony are verbal and situational.
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