ENGLISH 8

• Paragraph -is a group of related sentence that talk about a main idea
• transitional devices - serve as '' signpost '' that guide the readers through the test ideas flow.
• Grammatical signal - can be used to achieve coherence
• General to Particular - this is an organization pattern that is commonly used in paragraph is the deductive method. Where the general idea is introduced first before the specific points
• Cause and effect - it is the pattern of idea development shows one event that is the reason another event happens
• claim and counterclaim - In this idea development, The first sentence is an assertion (claim) which is followed by a sentence that contradicts the assertion
• comparison contrast - It compares two things side by side and point out their similarities and differences
• Question and solution - it develops an idea by asking a question at the beginning of the paragraph
• Outlining - shows how ideas in a written text are organized and related.
• Word outline - uses a singular word to organize ideas on each level of the outline
• Primary sources - are the firsthand accounts that include eye witness, accounts, statistical reports, legal or historical, documents.
• Secondary sources - which are often based on a primary sources, include reviews, research papers and journal articles
• Topic sentence - presents the main idea of the paragraph
• supporting sentence - provides details, facts explantion, examples and etc
• Concluding sentence - sums the ideas in the paragraph
• Introductory paragraph - is the first paragraph of the essay. These could be in the form of anecdotes, question and quotation and strong opinion
• Body Paragraph - contains at least three sentences with supporting evidence to support your thesis statement.
• Persuasive speech is a structured, orally delivered text that intended to convince the reader that the writers opinion is correct
• informative text - aims to communicate useful information to the reader
• Entertainment speech - aims to amuse or from the term itself entertain the audience
• verbal cues - these may be signaled by the right intonation, pitch, phrasing and juncture
• non verbal - these are important and critical to the message that we are trying to convey to our audience especially speeches
• facial expression - it can show whether someone is happy, sad, angry, surprised, disgusted, etc.
• gestures - most obvious body signals that our audience will see during our discussion
• eyecontact - enables the speaker to establish a connection between him or her and the audience since it attracts the attention