Cochrane Academic Vocab #2
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cochranese on June 23, 2010
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reading academic vocabulary jr. high
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 persuasive | Writing with a purpose of convincing you to believe, think, or do something that the author feels strongly about. |
| bias | When a writer expresses a particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather than scientific. A prejudiced view. |
| paraphrase | Restating a passage in your own words while retaining the thoughts of the author. |
| summarize | To capture the most important parts/ information of the text, but express them in a much shorter # of words. |
| biography | A form of nonfiction in which a writer tells the life story of another person. |
| autobiography | The story of one's life written by himself. |
| propaganda | example: advertising "tricks" used to try to sell you something. |
| myth | a traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society |
| affix | word part (suffix or prefix) |
| contemporary realistic fiction | modern made-up story that is realistic. |
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