ENGLISH 10: LESSON 1

• INFORMATION - are facts provided or learned about something or someone
• PERIODICALS - include magazines, newspaper, trade publication, and journals
• MAGAZINE and JOURNAL ARTICLES - are written by journalists, intended to be short and understandable and contain color images advertisement sold to an audience
• NEWSPAPER - provides discussion on updated and current issues and trends
• MAGAZINE - is a collection of articles and images on various topics and interests
• JOURNAL - is a collection of articles written by scholars and/or researchers
• DICTIONARY - is a collection of words which are alphabetically arranged, it also provides meaning to various words
• BOOKS - contain important scholarly information and are particularly helpful for theoretical, philosophical  and historical inquiry and can be used to learn definitions, key concepts, and key words that can be used to find additional sources
• ENCYCLOPEDIA - is a collection of short factual entries about various subjects or topics
• THESES AND DISSERTATIONS - are the result of an individual student's research while in a graduate program.
• INTERNET - allows us to search information through a browser
• PRIMARY SOURCES - are first hand accounts of research or an event including original scholarly research results, raw data, testimony, speeches, historic objects or other evidence that provides unique and original information about a person or an event
• SECONDARY SOURCES - analyze, synthesize, evaluate, and interpret primary sources
• TERTIARY SOURCES - analyze and summarize the information in primary and secondary sources in order to provide background on a idea, event, or topic
• DEMONSTRATIVE - teaches you something that includes a demonstration of how to do the thing
• ENTERTAINMENT - provides pleasure and enjoyment that makes the audience laugh
• PERSUASIVE - to convince people or change in some way; to start doing something
• DESCRIPTIVE - helps the speaker create an accurate mental picture in the mind of an audience regarding a specific person, place, or thing
• DEMONSTRATIVE - describes how to perform an action
• EXPLANATORY - explains the state of a topic
• DEFINITION - explains a concept or theory regarding a topic
• NEWS REPORT - begins with a catchy headline
• HEADLINE - is the title of the news
• LEAD PARAGRAPH - informs the reader of the most important aspects of the story as soon as possible
• BODY of the News Report - gives more details and provides more information about the WHY and HOW of the story
• TAIL - contains the less important information which is often omitted by the newspaper editor if there is not enough space left in the newspaper
• NEWS - is information about current events
• INFORMATIVE - provides interesting and useful information to audience; tends to educate the audience