Eapp

• features of language are formality, objectivity, explicitness, caution.


  features
• formality


  one verb form over two word verbs
• more complex language


  objectivity
• colloquial


  usual used words
• trite


  obvious terms
• explicitness


  sign posts or signal words
• caution


  statement can be improved using devices such as modal, verbs, adverbs.
• vacappin


  verb, adverb, conjunction, adjective, pronoun, preposition, interjection, noun.
• what is the v in vacappin

  verb
• what is the first a in vacappin

  adverb
• what is the c in vacappin

  conjunction
• what is the second a in vacappin

  adjective
• what is the first p in vacappin

  pronoun
• what is the second p in vacappin

  preposition
• what is the i in vacappin

  interjection
• what is the n in vacappin

  noun
• parts of speech


  vacappin
• hedging


  use of linguistic devices to express hesitation or uncertainty
• combining ideas effectively

  avoid rebundancy
• nominalization 


  turns verbs into nouns
• passivation


  results of action (what)
• nonfiction text structures

  description, order and sequence, cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution
• compare-contrast


  similarities and differences
• cause-effect


  action and its effect
• sequence structure


  steps in procedure
• descriptive structure


  detailed description
• problem-solution


  set ups problem, explains the solution, and then discusses the effets of solution
• question-answer


  starts by posing a question then goes on to answer
• summarizing


  a short restatement of the main idea of the text
• outline that only consists of short phrases

  topic outline
• outline that contains complete sentences

  sentence outline
• critical approaches


  formalism, feminist critism, reader-response, marxist criticism
• formalism


  it posits that the key to understanding a text is through the text itself
• feminist criticism


  focuses on how literature presents women as subjects of socio-political, etc.
• reader-response


  your own reaction as a reader
• marxist criticism


  concerned with differences between economic closses and implication of a capitalist system