English 12 Demo

Manner in which a building or other complete whole [like an academic paper] is constructed, supporting framework or whole of the essential parts of something (the structure of a poem, sentence, etc.) (Oxford Concise Dictionary).

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Refers to the way a writer expresses his or her ideas. Oxford Concise Dictionary: “manner of writing, speaking, or doing, in contrast to the matter to be expressed or thing done; collective characteristics of the writing or diction or way of presenting things.”

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Adjective

summary (comparative more summary, superlative most summary)

1. Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form

Noun

theme (plural themes)

1. A subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
2. A recurring idea; a motif.

According to The Writer’s Brief Handbook, a thesis is “a controlling idea.” The authors (Rosa, Eschholz and Roberts) explain that “The thesis is often expressed in one or two sentences called a thesis statement” (13). An article’s thesis statement is usually in the first or second paragraphs, after some description or discussion of the article’s context or the gaps in the discipline’s knowledge the article is addressing.

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Noun

tone (plural tones)

General character, mood, or trend.

I’m using this term to mean the expected sources of information agreed upon by the discipline. As an example, historians are expected to use documents from the time (letters, diaries, government documents, newspapers, etc.). Social scientists draw from a different tradition and often use data generated by large, anonymous surveys as evidence. There is, of course, no real limit to such evidence. In general, “traditional evidence” is evidence (data) that is thought of as somehow value-free, which the author then interprets or explains.

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Refers to different revolutions and protests, all of which were coordinated using the social networking site Twitter to plan the protests, mobilize the demonstrators and update the news to all around the world.

Wikipedia

Noun

validity (countable and uncountable, plural validities)

1. The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.

A component of style that refers to choices of words and sentence structures that create the “sound” of the author’s speech in your mind when you read; using some slang words may create a conversational tone. Sticking to more impersonal and formal vocabulary and complete sentences results in a lecturing or explaining tone.

A Guide to Reading and Analyzing Academic Articles, by Amanda Graham, 1997-2012, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.