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• bias - favour one person, group, thing, or point of view over another.
• prejudice - unfavorable opinion or feelings formed beforehand or without knowledge
• loaded words - generates strong emotions or feelings. Makes readers feel positive or negative about an idea
• stereotypes - unfair belief about a particular category/group
• generalization - makes broad statements. not being specific
• one-sided argument - present evidence that seems to support only one side of an issue
• opinion - what the author feels or believes
• social sources - unequal status
• cognitive sources - racism and sexism. perceived similarities and differences
• social learning - involves adopting someone else's behaviour
• increase intergroup contact - may also reduce prejudice because it increases empathy
• recategorization - reduces bias and negative prejudice by extending the benefits of in-group favouritism to former out group
• recategorization - combines the separate groups into one large group such as humanity as a whole
• understanding other specific traits and emotional outcome - empathy and perspective-taking
• recount - tells events that happened in the past
• recount - involves names of people, places, dates, and times, the reason and the series of events
• introduction - first paragraph must already include the details of an event's who, what, when, why, where, and how
• body paragraphs - include a series of events
• conclusion - the writer/speaker gives personal comment/recommendations about the event
• oral reports - used in presenting factual recounts
• give stress and emphasis on words - he/she creates a specific tone and clearly points out details through tone and stress on words
• make use of a controversial-authoritative voice - creates a relationship between the reporter and the audience
• articulate words well and speak with varied pacing - suggests different ideas to the audience
• outlining - identifying the key in the text, simplifying the task of reading a longer, more complicated text
• title of outline - tells what the whole outline is about
• main topic of outline - presents the main idea. label them using Roman numerals
• sub-topic of outline - each main topic is labeled A, B, C, etc.
• details in outline - provides additional info to clarify important ideas
• topic outline - systematic list of topics and sub topics written in words
• sentence outline - heading and subheading are written in sentences
• alphanumeric outline - follow outline rules defining hierarchy and aligning thought logically
• decimal outline - relies on decimals to separate headings and subheadings
• validity - quality of factually sound. legally, officially, binding or acceptable
• validity listening - hearing the message, understanding it, and analyzing it
• evidence - facts that indicates if belief it true or valid
• testimonial evidence - made under oath in a court
• statistical evidence - result of research
• anecdotal evidence - collected in a casual or informal manner
• analogical evidence - idea that two or more things are similar in some aspect
• drama - written work that tells story through action/speech