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Critical Thinking
Involves reacting to what you are reading, evaluating and responding to authors ideas.
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Purpose
- is to entertain, to educate, advocate for particular cause, or to elicit a particular emotion from the reader.
- Determines the words used, the details provided, and the style in which it is written.
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Style
A general term for the characteristics that make a piece of writing unique.
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Intended Audience
is the group the writer expects to reach from his/her work.
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Denotation
Is a words literal meaning.
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Connotation
is the set additive meanings or associations that a word has taken on.
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Euphemism
A word or phrase used to avoid unpleasant, embarrassing, or otherwise objectionable word.
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Doublespeak
A type of euphemism that uses deliberately unclear or evasive language.
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Facts
are objective statements of info that can be verified.
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