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• The word “advocacy” describes the process of supporting a cause or idea. The term “campaign” may evoke images of politicians running for office, but it technically refers to a set of activities designed to bring about a certain change or result.
• advocacy as being more reactive and direct, and campaigning as being more planned and proactive and involving multiple channels of influence.
• Conjunctions are words that link other words, phrases, or clauses together.
• conjunctions


  And, or, so, since, for, because, as, but, yet, still, while, as soon as, therefore, moreover, in case, though, although, even though,
• opinion - a person's statement based on his beliefs, feelings, ot thoughts.
• assertion - a statement which people assume to be true but can't be proven.
• Modals are helping verbs (meaning they precede other verbs) used to indicate permission, possibility, obligation, advice, ability, prohibition, requests, and preference.
• Modals Examples

  can

  may

  might

  could

  should

  would

  will

  must
• An adverb is a word that modifies (describes) a verb
• Claims of Fact - Claims that assert the truth or existence of something and can be tested by examining evidence for the claim.
• Claims of Value - Claims that make a judgment about the worth or value of something, usually judging something as praiseworthy or blameworthy, beautiful or ugly, or simply good or bad.
• A claim of policy argues that certain conditions should exist, or that something should or should not be done, in order to solve a problem.
• a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer?

  rhetorical questions
• • Is rain wet?
  • Do dogs bark?
  • Can birds fly?

  What are these examples? Rhetorical questions
• Multimodal projects are simply projects that have multiple “modes” of communicating a message. 
• modes of multi-modal?

  Written language

  Spoken Language

  Patterns
• Patterns under multi-modal?

  visual

  audio

  gestural

  tactile

  spatial
• visual - can be seen or read
• audio - can only be heard
• gestural - from the word gesture, action or face can deliver the language it self.
• tactile - sense of touch, decent & malicious tactile
• spatial - space and order
• Elements of Multi-Modal text

  Linguistic

  visual

  audio

  gestural

  spatial
• linguistic - vocabulary, structure, grammar, oral & written language
• An affirmative (positive) form is used to express the validity or truth of a basic assertion.

  
  

  affirm is to agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.
• while a negative form expresses its falsity.

  
  

  negate is to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict
• research - the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
• expository text


  writing that expose facts. logical and fact-based, but it doesn't have to be boring.
• signal words - words that signal what comes next in a conversation
• graphic organizer is a guide
• descriptive - by listing characteristics, Features, attributes. and example. Descrive a topic or idea. Usually one topic many description.
• Sequence expository - structure written when the author lists tom or events in numerical o chronological requcice, either explicit or implied.
• Compare & Contrast - where in information is presented by detailing how two or more events, theories, etc. ore alike or different.
• Cause & Effect - where the author presents ideas, events in time, or facts as cause and the resulting effects of facts that happen as a result of an event."
• Problem & Solution - The last expository structure. wherein the author presents a problem and one or more solutions to the problem. Orne problem multiple solutions.