| Term | Definition |
|---|
| biography | a book about a person's life written by someone else. |
| autobiography | a book that someone writes about his or her own life. |
| memoir | a book a person writes about a particular time in hs or her life; it does not cover from birth to death. |
| diary or journal | a day by day account of a person's life. |
| essay | a short nonfiction work about a particular topic; it looks at one subject in a limited way |
| historical document or speech | official statement that record the social and poilitical beliefs of groups of people and individuals in history and expose the readers to the language and attitude of the time. |
| periodicals | a newspaper or magazine that is distributed monthly, weekly, or daily. |
| interview | a one on one conversation in which questions are asked and answered |
| documentary | a nonfiction film that uses primary and secondary sources |
| official document | examples include a birth certificate, death certificate, marriage license, police reports. |
| primary source | a first hand account ; it is reliable |
| secondary source | a description by a person usually not at the event; it is not as reliable |
| exposition | a writing or speech that explains or informs something |
| paraphrasing | rewriting or restating another person's ideas or thoughts into your own words. |
| summarizing | a shortened version of a paraphrase |
| source reliability | current author has credentials, ect. |
| works cited | a list of sources used in a nonfiction work and placed at the end of the paper |
| plagiarism | taking someone else's words or ideas and making them yours withour giving credentials |
| parenthetical citation | MLA style intext citation |
| prose, ideas, tells | nonfiction is a ------- writing that presents and explains ------ or---------- about people, places objects, and events. |
| research, own, caused, impact | authors of nonfiction may write about the following: -An event that happened long ago based on _______________, -A description of their ____ experience, -An event to explain what may have _______ it, what ________ it had, and what it meant. |
| solution, meaning | Authors of nonfiction can also: -Include a discussion of ideas such as proposing a _______________ to a problem or considering the _____________ of life. |
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