English 4th mid

Cards (22)

  • Outline
    Is a map of your essay
  • A tool used in improving and organizing written ideas about a topic into logical order
    Outline
  • Sentence Outline
    Structured framework for organizing and presenting the main ideas and supporting details of a written work, such as an essay, research paper, or presentation.
  • Characters are used in this order in bullet formatting:
    Roman Numerals
    Capitalized Letters
    Arabic Letters
    Lowercase Letters
  • Roman Numerals - Main topic
    Capitalized Letters - Subtopic
    Arabic Letters - Supporting details
    Lowercase Letters - Specific Information
  • Topic Outline
    Presents the major topic, sub topics, and supporting details in the form of words and phrases
  • What are the contents of an outline?
    Thesis statement
    Major topic
    Subtopic
    Supporting details
  • Major topic refer to the major phrases/sentences which are formes from the thesis statement
  • Subtopics refer to the minor phrases/sentences which are formed from the major topics.
  • Supporting details are phrases/sentences which provide additional information to clarify or prove the main idea.
  • A thesis statement is one-statement the expresses the main idea of an essay
  • Steps in writing an outline::
    1. Choose your topic and establish your purpose.
    2. Create and Organize a list of your major topics
    3. Make and organize a list of your subtopics
    4. Provide additional information to support your subtopics
    5. Review and refine the contents of your outline.
  • Primary sources
    -Firsthand information taken form original evidences
    -original materials or firsthand accounts that offer evidence or data about a particular event, phenomenon, or topic.
  • Secondary Sources
    -Secondhand information taken from the primary sources
    -Interpretation, analysis, or evaluations of primary sources.
  • Narrative
    • Tells a story which can be fiction or nonfiction
    • Shorts stories and other traditional tales are examples of fiction while, biographies are examples of narrative non-fiction
  • Explanation
    • Explains a particular subject or topic through ideas that support it
    • A kind of factual text that explains how or why things are
    • Elaborates on how or why something occurs or give information on how to do something.
  • Expository
    • Are also informational texts that present factual data on a topic through description, sequence, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and problem solution.
  • Procedural
    • Lists a sequence of actions or steps needed make or do something.
  • Recount
    • Reteels oast events which may either be personal or factual
  • Personal recount
    -retells past events that the writer was personally involved in.
  • Factual recount 

    -retells events that also happened in real life but may be about the writer himself/herself.
  • Persuasive text
    -intends to convince the readers/listeners to believe, perform a certain action or change mind.