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nonfiction |
prose that is a true story |
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primary source |
a first hand account; it is reliable |
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secondary source |
a discription by a person usually not at the event; it is not as reliable |
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autobigoraphy |
a book that someone writes about his or her life |
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biography |
a book about a persons life writen by someone else |
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essay |
a short nonfiction work about a topic |
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expostion |
a writing or speech that explains or informs something |
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diary |
a day by day account of a person's life; it is usually "locked' |
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memoir |
a book a person writes about a particular time in their life; it does not cover from birth to death |
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periodical |
a newspaper or magazine that is distributed: monthly, weekly, or daily |
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interview |
a one on one conversation in which questions are asked and answered |
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documentary |
a nonfiction film that uses primary and secondary sources |
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record |
examples include a birth certificate, death certificate, marriage liscense, police reports |
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plagarism |
taking someone else's words or ideas and making them your own |
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fact |
a statement that can be proven |
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opinion |
a statement in which expresses someone's ideas or thoughts |
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paraphrasing |
rewriting or restating another person's ideas or thoughts into your own words |
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summarizing |
a shortened version of a paraphrase, it retains the writers main idea and point of view but condenses the material |
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parenthetical citation |
sources are cited in an essay using a particular style such as MLA. Also called in text citation or internal documentation |
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source reliability |
current author has credentials |
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biblography |
a list of works used in a nonfiction work placed at the end of the work |
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