English Composition

Contextualizing

Strategy that attempts to see the relationships between a constituent part, other parts, and the whole.

The text is placed into context before it is read.

Cramming

Strategy that involves taking in as much as possible in a limited amount of time.

Judging

Considering the title of a work as a clue to its content or message.

X-raying

Scanning strategy that focuses on the structure of a text.

X-ray results of many books:

X-raying a book can tell you if you want to _.

What can tell you if you want to take the time to read a book?

X-raying can help prepare you for _.

X-raying can help you begin _.

What can help you prepare for what you're going to read?

What can help you begin framing questions about the writing?

Annotating

Process of writing notes as you read.

Coming to terms

Process of concluding which words the authro is using as terms and what precisely those terms mean.

Paraphrasing

Translating within a single language, or putting a text into your own words.

Annotating points to the _.

A simple concept that points to the complex, symbiotic relationship between reading and writing:

Thought process

When reading a passage, a whole series of thoughts, impressions, connections, and questions pass through your mind; this is referred to as _.

Annotation is an aid to memory, a record of your thought process, a _.

Annotation is an aid to memery, a _, a transcript of your part in an ongoing conversation with the author.

Annotation is _, a record of your thought process, a transcript of your part in an ongoing conversation with the author.

An aid to memory is _.

A record of your thought process is _.

A transcript of your part in an ongoing conversation with the author is _.

Four guidelines for effective annotation are:
1. Ask questions of the author.
2. Make reminders for yourself.
3. Make note of recurring images, arguments, ideas, words, and phrases.
4. _.

Four guidelines for effective annotation are:
1. Ask questions of the author.
2. Make reminders for yourself.
3. _.
4. Starting with the title, keep track of what kinds of expectations the author seems to be creating.

Four guidelines for effective annotation are:
1. Ask questions of the author.
2. _.
3. Make note of recurring images, arguments, ideas, words, and phrases.
4. Starting with the title, keep track of what kinds of expectations the author seems to be creating.

Four guidelines for effective annotation are:
1. _.
2. Make reminders for yourself.
3. Make note of recurring images, arguments, ideas, words, and phrases.
4. Starting with the title, keep track of what kinds of expectations the author seems to be creating.

Ask questions of the author:

Make reminders for yourself.

Make note of recurring images, arguments, ideas, words, and phrases.

Starting with the title, keep track of what kinds of expectations the author seems to be creating.

Outlining can help writers shape their writing, but it can also give readers a _.

Outlining can help writers _, but it can also give readers a window into that process.

What can help writers shape their writing?

Outlines can help readers _ in an author's writing.

What can help readers diagnose potential problems in an author's writing?

Outlining can be a tool in _.

What can bea tool in creatively assessing a piece of writing?

Words can have _. Terms are words with only one meaning.

Words can have more than one meaning. Terms are _.

Process of concluding which words an author is using as terms and what precisely those terms mean is known as _.

If you were able to translate English into English, you would be _.

Paraphrasing is most commonly known by rhe phrases "_" and "_".

Purpose of putting an author's idea into your own words:
Help _, rather than _, the author's ideas.

Purpose of putting an author's idea into your own words:
Force you to _ about the words the author is using and how _.

Purpose of putting an author's idea into your own words:
Make you _ and _ more clearly what the author has attempted to say.

Purpose of putting an author's idea into your own words:
Help you to see the author's writing in _; it can bring to mind _ and _ that extend or anticipate those of the author.

What can help you to internalize, rather than simply memorize, the author's ideas?

What forces you to think consciously about the words the author is using and how s/he has put them together?

What can make you understand and visualize more clearly what the author has attempted to say?

What can hlep you to see the author's writing in a different light; and bring to mind ideas and connections that extend or anticipate those of the author.

True paraphrase does not simply rearrange the author's words, but _.

Summarizing can give you a sense of _.

What gives you a sense of what the parts of an essay add up to?

Summarize it to put into _.

Summarizing can be useful for condensing complex ideas, arguments, or plots into _.

Summarizing can be useful for condensing complex _, _, or _ into more manageable forms.

What can be useful for condensing complex ideas, arguments, or plts into more manageable forms?

Effectively summarizing an author's writing forces you to _.

What forces you to carefully consider which terms and ideas are most important in an author's writing?

Contradiction

Either of two propositions related in such a way that it is impossible for both to be true or both to be false.

Contradiction in terms

Occurs when an author defines a term in one way and uses it in another (usually opposite) way.

Figurative language

Devices of language that are nonliteral.

What says one thing but means another?

Irony

Intentional use of contradiction to emphasize or make light of something by saying or doing the opposite of what one intends:

Paradox

Statement that is seemingly contradictory but which could nevertheless be true:

Simple contradiction

Unintentional contradiction

Revising means literally _.

Researching is _.

To search again where there is still room for exploration is _.

To see again is _.

Reading for ambiguity is a process of
1. identifying ambiguous wording
2. evaluating the ambiguity
3. _.

Reading for ambiguity is a process of
1. identifying ambiguous wording
2. _
3. teasing out the finite or infinite readings of an ambiguous passage.

Reading for ambiguity is a process of
1. _
2. evaluating for ambiguity
3. teasing out the finite and infinite readings of an ambiguous passage

Reading for ambiguity is about looking for where the author has _.

Character

Person in a literary work; sometimes referred to as "flat" or "round."

Genre

Types or mode of writing:

Mimesis

Refers to the author's means of representing or mirroring reality in fiction:

Narrator

In a story, the person speaking to the reader or telling the reader the story:

Plot

The way an author represents a chain of events within a literary work:

Point of view

Perspective or vantage point by which the reader is able to see or experience certain evetns within a story or poem.

Setting

Place where the story occurs:

Symbol

An object, action, or even a person that has acquired meaning beyond itself; anything that represents more than itself or is invested with meaning:

Theme

Unifying central subject or idea that provides a literary work with its stance or approach:

Tone

Emotional approach or attitude that the writer chooses to use to color his or her work:

A short story is a fictional narrative in _.

A short story is a _ in prose.

What is a fictional narrative in prose?

Prose

Refers to language that is not obviously musical in beat or rhyme and that is printed from the left to the right margin: