english

• primary source -anything that gives you direct evidence
• secondary source - anything that is based on primary sources
• grammatical signals/expressions - are writing devices that serve to maintain text coherence
• idea development - is a manner or pattern by which a writer or speaker explains his/her main idea about a topic
• general to particular - the method of explaining by starting with a broad (big idea) and following it with specific (small) ideas in support to the main idea
• claim and counter claim - the claim is it is your stand and counterclaim is someone opposes your stand
• problem solution - this is where you identify a problem then give solutions to solve it
• cause and effect - this is when you explain why something happened, what caused it.
• outline - is a general plan of what you are going to write
• topic outline - the point are stated as word or phrases
• sentence outline - the points are stated as sentence
• thesis statement - a statement that is the main idea of an essay
• major topics - refer to a major phrases/sentences which are formed from the thesis sentence
• subtopics - refer to the minor phrases/sentences which are formed from the major topics
• supporting details - provide additional information to clarify or prove the main idea
• synthesizing - first idea and secon idea plus your own idea is become a new idea
• why synthesize?


  to help other see the connection between things they learn
• a synthesis can form

  • a new understanding
  • a deeper understanding
  • a change understanding
• paragraph - is a series of sentences that support a main idea or point
• narrative - it entertains readers by telling a story (imaginary or realword)
• expository text - fact based that seek to explain or inform some example is books or manuals
• explanatory - it is explain a process
• factual recount - it is real and you are not involved
• personal recount - it is real and you are involved
• persuasive text - it is persuade a reader
• topic sentence - it states the main idea of the paragraph and is usually the first sentence of the paragraph.
• supporting sentences - the middle part of the paragraph that explains the topic sentence and provides evidence for it
• concluding sentence - the last sentence of the essay, which summarizes the main points and restates the thesis