COR 002 QUIZ NA EME

• Cohesion is the connection of ideas to the central concept of a text
• Coherence is the relationship of ideas between sentences
• Spatial is a sentences of a paragraph are arranged according to geographical location
• Emphatic is when information found in a paragraph is arranged to emphasize certain points depending on the writer’s purpose
• Proper language allows you to capture the message that you want to convey to your readers
• Misused words often happens when a writer might sometimes use a word incorrectly
• Words with unwanted connotations are word that take on a meaning specific to a context
• Highfalutin words are words that writers uses in order to sound smart (they use technical word or technical words that have deep meanings)
• Formal Language is used in writing academic, business, and official texts.
• Informal Language is usually used in writing for oneself or in writing to family, friends, and colleagues
• when writing we make sure that the language that we use is direct and simple rather than complicated so that the readers would easily understand
• unbiased language is a language that is free of racial, religious, and gender bias
• when we write, we should always makes sure that we are consistently using one standard with regard to the spelling of your words
• Punctuation is the act of using a system of symbols such as the comma, period, quotation marks, question marks, etc.
• Quotation marks or speech marks shows that words have been directly quoted
• Apostrophe has two main functions: shows a letter has been omitted from a word in a contraction, and is used to make a noun possesive
• Hypen has two main functions: is to form compound words and often used after the prefix of a word
• Em-dash shows a big pause in a sentence or emphasizes the end of a sentence
• Ellipsis is a series of three dots, and shows that something has been removed from a sentence, it can also show a pause or an unfinished sentece
• A comma joins two or more ideas in a sentence or separates items in a series
• A colon introduces the information that comes after it, it tells the reader that something is coming
• The semicolon connects two complete sentences that are related
• The question mark shows that a question is being asked, that the speaker or writer is seeking an answer to something
• The period is the most common punctuation mark in the english language, it shows the end of a sentence
• Capitalization is the act of writing the first letter of a word in uppercase while the rest of the letters are in lowercase
• Critical thinking is a technique for evaluating information and ideas, for deciding what to accept and believe, it also involves reflecting on the validity of what you have read in light of our prior knowledge
• Critical reading is a technique for discovering information and ideas within a text (it also refers to a careful, active, reflective, and analytic reading.)
• The main idea is the central idea being expressed or examined
• Thesis statement is a one-sentence summary that guides, controls, and unifies ideas when writing a paper (states the argument in a piece of persuasive writing, it is a more developed plot statement, and it usually comes at the end of the introduction)
• Topic sentence develops one argument of the thesis statement (it guides, controls, and unifies ideas in a paragraph)
• Arguments are claims that are backed by reasons which are supported by evidence
• Fact claim is a statement about how things were in the past, and how they are in the present (a fact claim is not a fact; it only claims to be a fact)
• Value claims are arguable statements concerning the relative merits of something which is measure subjectively.
• Policy claims are statements regarding the merits of one course of action as opposed to other courses of action
• Textual evidence is the details given by the author in order to support his/her claims (it reveals the position of the writer and makes the reading more interesting, it validates and strengthens your writings)
• Business correspondence is a written interchange of internal and external communication to assist the flow of business processes
• Business letter is the traditional way of communicating information from one company to another or used in external correspondence
• Business memorandum is a written communication strictly between the company’s offices to another or used in internal correspondence
• Business email is an office correspondence that can be either internal or external (there is no required format, but it is expected that the writer maintains a professional tone)