ENGLISH 4TH Quarter Reviewer

• Writing technique - is a style an author uses to convey their message
• Informative essay- presents information and explain a short theme. Support your points with facts and reliable data. Make it concise and give it a clear ending.
• Argumentative essay- always presents evidence and argues in a sense that it proves a hypothesis; a theory, or an opinion to an opposite hypothesis. Support your arguments with research, statistics, quotes from experts or facts from solid evidence. Talk about the other side of your argument-the opposing side. Always use engaging language to convince the readers. And with the striking conclusion, a solution, or a call to action.
• Persuasive essay - this type of essay presents reasons that will convince a reader to believe or adopt a viewpoint on a certain. Be clear and concise with your position. Keep your paragraph engaging by using vivid words. However, do not get carried away with being too emotional or passionate. And with a striking conclusion or a call to action.
• Analytical essay - type of essay that analyzes, interprets or examines an artwork, a film, or a literary work, a song, a composition, or a media text. Make an outline to help you organize your thoughts. Use present tense. Avoid slang, colloquial language and contractions. Critical respond to what you understood from reading text. Its effect on you is very important.
• Critique - demonstrates a thorough of understanding of the material as well as critical thinking that allows you to weigh the substance and quality of the text. Critique is not an exercise in finding fault. A critic is more in line with an evaluative analysis and examine closely, and its strengths and weaknesses are appraised.
• Introduction of critique - a short selection where you must identify the title and author of the work, briefly describe the context that informs the creation of the work and state your thesis or the overall evaluation of the work-what you feel it's goal is and whether or not it's succeeded at all
• Summary of work - reader will need this information in order to understand your analysis evaluation afterwards, so include relevant plot elements, character details, and information about the context of the work
• Critical evaluation - the section should include an organized, detailed analysis of the work using your chosen lens, expressing your thesis statement and providing supporting information for why feel the work succeeded at its goal or not
• Conclusion of a critique - this is where you briefly summarize the points you have just made leading to restatement of your verdict about the text
• Literary approaches - these are the different perspective
• Moralist approach - under morally criticism, a literary text is expected to reinforce tradition ally held moral values
• Marxist approach - it examines how the text represents and treats the power dynamics between social classes. Karl marx is a german philosopher.
• Historical approach - it assume that a work is influenced by the culture and era that created it.
• Structuralist/formalist approach- holds that the true meaning of a text can be determined by only analyzing the literary elements of the text and by understanding how these elements work together to form a cohesive whole. Literary elements, literary devices, language, structure
• Feminist approach - focuses on female representation in literature, paying attention to female points of view, concerns, and values.
• Reader-response approach - argues that the meaning of a text is dependent upon the reader's response to it
• Sensory imagery - involves the use of descriptive language in creating mental images
• Visual imagery - this is what we can see including visual description. It includes physical attributes such as color, size, shape,
• Auditory imagery - uses the sense of hearing. Onomatopoeia and alliteration are literary devices that can help create sounds in writing
• Tactile imagery - uses sense of touch. It includes textures, various sensations, and temperature variations
• Olfactory imagery - uses our sense of smell. It includes fragrances.
• Gustatory imagery - it uses that sense of taste. This includes flavors such as the five basic tastes as well as the texture and sensations associated with eating
• Abstract - a short summary of your completed research; intended to describe your work without going into detail
• Appendix - serves as a space for materials that help clarify your research but do not belong in the main text
• Assignment - random assignment is how you assign the sample that you draw to different groups or treatment in your study
• Background of the study - is a brief outline of the most important studies that have been conducted so far presented in chronological orders
• Cause and effect - refers to relationship in which one phenomenon is the reason behind the other
• Conclusion - help the readers to understand why your research should matter to them after they have finished reading the paper
• Data - any information that has been collected, observed, generated or created to validate original research findings
• Dependent variables - a variable that responds to the changes;'dependent' on the independent variable
• Discussion - the section of your research paper where purpose is to interpret and describe
• Experiment - is a procedure carried out to support, refute, or validate a hypothesis
• Findings - the principal outcomes of a research project; what the project suggested, revealed or intended
• Hypothesis - a statement of expectation or prediction that will be tested by research
• Independent variable - a variable in an experiment that is changed by or manipulated
• Introduction - the next part after the title and abstract
• Literature review - provides an overview of current knowledge, allowing you to identify relevant theories, methods, and gaps in the existing research
• Manuscript - is the work that an author submits to a publisher, editor, or producer for publication
• Methodology - address the research aims and objectives; systematic method to resolve a research problem through data gathering