List 4

Front 1

credibility

Back 1

the sense of trustworthy that a writers convey through his or her text

Front 2

assertion

Back 2

a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief

Hint 2

trustworthy

Front 3

comprehension

Back 3

the ability to perceive and understand something

Front 4

prior knowledge

Back 4

wisdom and intelligence the stems from previous experience

Front 5

rhetorical prècis

Back 5

a gene that summarizes the main idea of a text

Front 6

voice makers

Back 6

signal phrase that identify for readers who's ideas are being expressed in a text

Front 7

refutation

Back 7

a rebuttal; the act of showing an argument to be wrong

Front 8

stance

Back 8

a writers attitude toward his or her subject

Front 9

summary

Back 9

a condensed restatement of others ideas in ones own words

Front 10

medium

Back 10

a means or wehicle for communicating

Front 11

inference

Back 11

a logical conclusion deduced from facts and evidence

Front 12

formality

Back 12

the appropriateness of style of a written or spoken work for the evidence

Front 13

evidence

Back 13

the statistics, calculation, facts, case studies or anything else is used to support a writters arguments

Front 14

topic sentence

Back 14

a sentence often at the beginning of a paragraph that contains the paragraph main point

Front 15

bias

Back 15

a partiality that preverts objective consideration of an issue or situation

Front 16

analogy

Back 16

a comparasion that explains something unfamiliar by referring to something familiar

Front 17

pathos

Back 17

using emotional arguments or expressive enacting language to generate meaning

Front 18

dialogue

Back 18

a less competitive exchange of ideas than debate,

Front 19

coherence

Back 19

unity or cohesion in a piece of writing usually achevied by making sure that all claims revolve around one and only one overarching argument

Front 20

point of view

Back 20

the vintage point lens outlooks or prespective from which a luther present information