READING & WRITING

• 5 Stages of a Story:

  Exposition - the beginning

  Rising Action - where conflict arises

  Climax - the exciting part

  Falling Action - everything is settling down

  Resolution - conflict is fixed
• Resume - provides usual your background including your education, work history, and other qualifications for a job, admission to a college or university, or a scholarship grant
• Four common Resume formats:

  Chronological - lists each job you held in order, starting with the most recent. This type works well for the person with several years of relevant experience.

  Functional - best when you have too little or too much experience. Focuses on skills and strengths significant to employers.

  Combination - balances the flexibility and strength of the chronological and functional resumes.

  Targeted - highly focused resume intended for specific job: a “capsule” of work experience.
• Working Writing may also be referred to as Business Writing, Professional Writing, Technical Writing, Writing for Engineers, and Writing in the Health Sciences.
• Memo - normally used for communicating policies, procedures, or related official business within an organization.
• Professional memos are organized to one of two strategies:

  Direct - presents the purpose of the document in the first paragraph (sometimes the first sentence) and provides supporting details in the body.

  Indirect - opens with relevant, attention-getting details that do not directly state the purpose of the document. The purpose is revealed in the body of the message, usually sandwiched between supporting details.
• Structure of a Memo:

  • Date: List the date on which the memo is distributed.
  • To: List the names of the recipients of the memo.
  • From: List the name and job title of the writer(s).
  • Subject: Summarize the main idea.
  • Introductory Paragraph: Explain your reason for writing, add background information.
  • Body: Add supporting details for reason stated in the opening.
  • Closing: Add a closing thought, any required action or summarize the information
• Electronic mail or Email - the most popular written communication channel in the history of human civilization; a flexible channel ideal for anything from short, routine information shares, requests, and responses the length of a text, to important formal messages delivering the content that letters and memos used to handle.
• Characteristics of a Business Letter:

  Concise

  Clear

  Conversational

  Courteous

  Correct
• Parts of a Business Letter:

  Heading - contains the return address with the date on the last line

  Recipient's Address - the address you are sending your letter to

  Salutation - often begins with “Dear {Person’s name}.”

  Body - the meat of your letter

  Complimentary Close - a short and polite remark that ends your letter
• Business Letter Formats:

  Block Style - single spaced and left aligned in block style

  Modified Block Style - the header, complementing closure, signature, and identity are positioned to the right in a modified block business letter
• Retelling - when an author restates what other texts contain
• Allusion - when an author directly or indirectly refers to an idea or passage in another text without actually quoting the text
• Quotation - the author directs a string of words from another text
• Pastiche - a text written in a way that it imitates the style or other properties of another text
• • Text- written work
  • Evidence- proof
  • TEXT + EVIDENCE- citing proof in the reading
• Textual Evidence - refers to any proof of an argument, a claim, a counterclaim, a contention or an assertion cited in the text leading to a conclusion
• The Masque of the Red Death color symbolism:

  Blue - Birth

  Purple - Youth

  Green - Adolescence

  Orange - Adulthood

  White - Old Age

  Violet - Imminent Death

  Black - Death
• Red Death - The disease that kills Prince Prospero's guests at the end of the story.
• Prince Prospero - The main character who throws the masquerade ball.
• Seven Rooms - Each room represents one stage of life from birth to death.