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WGU TBP1 English Composition 1vocabulary and terms
Slippery Slope - ✔Asserting that a *single event will lead to a series of much larger
events.*
Ad Hominem - ✔To attack the *person instead of the arguement.*
Straw Man - ✔Arguing a *misrepresentation of you oppositions position.*
Hasty Generalization - ✔Draws a *conclusion about an entire population without a large
enough sample size to base claim on.*
Message - ✔the idea that is related and will depend on the speaker, the audience, and
the context.
Context - ✔is the environment in which the message is sent or received.
abstract nouns - ✔A noun that is an idea or concept; examples include love, friendship,
and freedom.
active reading - ✔Reading strategies such as identifying the main claim and major
points, asking questions of the author, underlining evidence, and identifying appeals
that help readers stay engaged in reading, and therefore improve comprehension and
retention.
active voice - ✔The voice of a verb shows whether the subject of the sentence is
performing the verb or having the verb performed on it. The active voice is desired in
academic writing because it's often more concise and clear. For example: A
organization's executives should lead employees toward effective change is written
using active voice, while Employees should be led toward effective change by the
organization's executives is passive.
adjective - ✔An adjective describes a noun.
adverb - ✔An adverb is a modifier that describes a verb or adjective.
aesthetic - ✔Aesthetic criteria address attributes of a topic that are beautiful, attractive,
tasteful, artistic, or pleasing to the senses.
aggregate data - ✔Data that has been collected from two or more sources.
analogies - ✔Expressions that show relationships between two sets of terms.
,anaphora - ✔The intentional repetition of a group of words at the beginning of
successive sentences.
annotated bibliography - ✔A list of sources (books, journals, websites, periodicals, etc.)
one has used for researching a topic that includes a summary and/or evaluation of each
of the sources.
antecedent - ✔An antecedent is the word that a pronoun refers to.
antithesis - ✔The side-by-side placement of contrasting words or ideas, often written in
parallel structure.
apostrophe - ✔A literary device-refers to the act of addressing something that cannot
answer back.
appeal - ✔A strategy for persuading an audience. Ethos, pathos, and logos are appeals
to the author's credibility, shared values with the audience, and logic or reason.
appositive - ✔A noun or noun phrase that serves to define or clarify the main noun and
follows it immediately.
argument - ✔A type of writing or speech designed to persuade an audience to adopt the
author's point of view.
attitude - ✔The reflection of the author's feelings on the subject he or she is writing
about; often recognizable through the tone the author uses.
audience - ✔Those that a communication is prepared for. The audience for your
research paper includes your graders, but the graders are standing in for a general
academic audience, which can be defined as an audience that isn't an expert in your
topic but that is willing to learn new things if the information is presented in an
interesting and professional way.
cause-and-effect argument - ✔A cause-and-effect argument analyzes why something
has happened or what happened as a result of an event or situation.
clarity - ✔The quality or state of being clear. Clarity is effected by using sentence
structures that make the meaning of sentences easily understandable and by using
precise language.
clause - ✔Any group of words; clauses can be independent or dependent/subordinate.
Cliché - ✔A phrase that has been used so much and is so familiar that it has become
powerless.
, comma splice - ✔A grammatical error in which two sentences or parts of sentence are
joined by a comma, but they are not coordinated in a way that makes it clear which
sentence is designed to be independent
common knowledge - ✔Common knowledge is knowledge that is incontestable, or fact.
Common knowledge does not have to be cited; however, if you are not sure whether a
piece of information would be considered common knowledge by your reader, you
should cite it.
common noun - ✔Nouns that do not refer to specific person, place or thing are called
common nouns.
compare - ✔The act of considering how subjects are alike.
complex sentence - ✔A sentence that contains one independent clause and one or
more dependent clauses.
compound noun - ✔A noun that is made up of more than one words. Compound nouns
can be hyphenated or not. When they are hyphenated, add an -s to the most important
noun to pluralize. For example, brother-in-law becomes brothers-in-law.
compound sentence - ✔A sentence that has two or more independent clauses joined by
a semi-colon or a conjunction and comma.
compound-complex sentence - ✔A sentence with two or more independent clauses and
one or more independent clauses.
concision - ✔Conciseness; refers to using the precise words to make a point rather than
talking around the point; the opposite of concision is wordiness.
conclusion - ✔The end of a piece of writing; the role of the conclusion is generally to
summarize the argument and remind the reader why the argument matters.
concrete nouns - ✔A noun that is a person, place, or thing; examples include house,
horse, and car.
conjugated - ✔To conjugate a verb is to change it so that it can agree with its context in
the sentence. Verb endings (and sometimes the entire verb) can change based on
whether its subject is singular or plural and whether the action of the sentence happens
in the past, present, or future.
conjunction - ✔A conjunction is a connecting word, like but and or.
connotation - ✔A word's implied meaning.
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