ENGL 1100 Final Flashcards
(108 cards)
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Politics and the English Lanugage by_______
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George Orwell
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Dying Metaphors
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A metaphor that has lost all power and are merely used to save people the trouble of inventing new phrases
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Verbal False Limbs
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An expression that is artifically inflated to be longer and more important-sounding than it actually is
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Pretentious Diction
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Words that are used to give culture and elegance
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Parody
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An imitation or a version of something that falls far short of the real thing
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What are the four questions that every writer should ask themselves?
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What am I trying to say?
What words will express it?
What image or idiom will make it clearer?
Is this image fresh enough to make an effect?
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What are the extra questions a writer will ask him/herself?
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Could I have put it more shortly?
Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?
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Who gave 6 rules for all writers, and what are they?
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George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
- Never Use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print
- Never use a long word where a short one will do
- If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out
- Never use the passive where you can use the active
- Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent
- Break any of these rules sooner than say anything barbarous
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Who received the 1949 Nobel prize for Literature?
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William Faulkner
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Who said this and where?
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.
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William Faulkner in his 1949 Nobel prize for Literature banquet speech
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Universal Truth
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Something that is true across all cultures and lands
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Summary
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A brief statement or account of the main points of something
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Analysis
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The extraction of finer details, and the discussion of them in relation to the content
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What is Philosophy of Education? by _______?
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D.C. Phillips
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“…the second, more technical usage of ‘philosophy’ (and relatedly of course ‘philosophy of education’); this is the sense of the term that would apply to work sone in university departments of philosophy or programs in philosophy of education.”
Who said this, and where?
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D.C. Phillips, What is the Philosophy of Education?
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‘Philosophy is what philosophers do’, it might be suggested, ‘so let us take a few examples of philosophers at work and base out account on what we see there’. The problem with this approach is easy to detect: How does one go about selecting whom to study? How will you decide who counts as being a philosopher?’
Who said this, and where?
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D.C. Phillips, What is the Philosophy of Education?
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Epistimology
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Theory of knowledge, with regards to its methods, validity, and scope.
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Where can you find these two different processes of the way humans construct their own knowledge:
- The individual learner or knower constructing his or her cognitive understandings of the material being learned or of the stimuli being received; for the purposes of discussion, this has been labeled the ‘individual psychology’ focus of constructivism
- The construction of the publicly available disciplines or bodies of knowledge - such things as physics, biology, history, and economics; these are human constructions to the development of which many individuals have contributed throughout the course of human intellectual history. This has been labeled the ‘public disciplines’ focus
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What is the Philosophy of Education by D.C. Phillips
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Constructivism
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A theory of knowledge that argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from an interaction between their experiences and their ideas.
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Discourse
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Written or spoken communication and debate
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Hegemony
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Leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others
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Meta
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(of a creative work) referring to itself or to the conventions of its genre; self-referential.
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Paratext
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The elements that surround or are added to a text.
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What are the main topics of George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language
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Dead metaphors
The decline of the English language
The rules we can use to save the English Language
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What are the main topics of William Faulkner's 1949 Nobel Prize banquet speech?
The decline of the English Language
The use of universal truths
Matters of the heart and the effect it has on the English Language
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What are the main topics of D.C. Phillips' What is the Philosophy of Education?
Understanding disciplinary vs. technicality
Individual knowledge vs social knowledge
The way that knowledge circulates
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Engaged Pedagogy by ____?
bell hooks
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Who said the following and where?
To educate as the practice of freedom is a way of teaching that anyone can learn
bell hooks, Engaged Pedagogy
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"That learning process comes easiest to those of us who teach who also believe that there is an aspect of our vocation that is sacred; to believe that our work is not merely to share information, but to share in the intellectual and spiritual growth of our students."
Who said it? D.C Phillips (What is the Philosophy of Education?) or bell hooks (Engaged Pedagogy)
bell hooks, Engaged Pedagogy
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"If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
Who said it? George Orwell, or William Faulkner?
George Orwell
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What are the three types of reading?
One way reading
Two way reading
Three way reading
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One way reading
Reading to understand content, language, and diction
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Two way reading
Reading critically and to associate with the text and the material. Posing critical questions in relation to the reading
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Three way reading
Analytical reading; makes the connection between the *what* and the *how* of an essay/text
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What is the difference between a passive voice and an active voice?
In active voice, the subject is the doer of the action, while in passive voice, the subject is the receiver of the action.
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Syntax
the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language
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"Paulo Freire and the Vietnamese Buddist monk Thich Nhat Hanh are two of the 'teachers' who have touched me deeply with their work."
Who said it? bell hooks or K.M. Moran?
bell hooks, Engaged Pedagogy
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Engaged Pedagogy
Education that involved a teacher who aims to learn as much from her students as he or she intends to teach.
Education that involves a learning environment that is centered around conversation and discussion.
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"The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom with all its limitations remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labour for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom."
Who said it?
bell hooks, Engaged Pedagogy
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"Engaged pedagogy necessarily values _____ ________." -bell hooks
Student expression
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What is the banking concept of education?
The idea is that the student is the receptor, and will simply contain and absorb information. It is the dominant mode of education
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What are the main topics of bell hook's Engaged Pedagogy?
Student and teacher roles within the academy and the education system
Who is able to learn
When does learning stop?
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"Human rights are great for society. We appreciate the work the museum has been doing to bring attention to global issues. Unfortunately, we feel it was necessary to cancel our performance because of the museum's misrepresentation and downplay of the genocide that was experienced by Indigenous people in Canada by refusing to name it genocide. Until this is rectified, we'll support the museum from a distance."
Who said this? (Hint: It wasn't a reading, but something discussed in lecture)
A Tribe Called Red, in a public statement about their distance from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
In Lecture about Engaged Pedagogy.
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While the scholarly essays and reflections in Bearing Witness carry weight and represent an intellectually diverse approach to the topic of war, violence, and conflict, they are done a disservice by the collection’s “Preface.”
Who said this?
Bart Vautour, on the book Bearing Witness
In lecture about Engaged Pedagogy
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The Summary and Unofficial Consolidation of the Statutes Relating to Dalhousie University by ________?
Dalhousie University
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What are the main topics of The Summary and Unofficial Consolidation of the Statutes Relating to Dalhousie University by Dalhousie University?
The jobs and responsibilities of the Board of Governors
The direction of the academic board
The history of the Board of Governors and the Academic Board
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Academic Citizenship
Refers to the duties, responsibilities or virtues
| of students as well as academic faculty
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Capitalizing on Big Data: Toward a Policy Framework for Advancing Digital Scholarship in Canada, by _______?
The Government of Canada
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What kind of document is the “Capitalizing on Big Data: Toward a Policy Framework for Advancing Digital Scholarship in Canada” ?
Consultation document
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Strengthening Canada's Cultures of Innovation: Strategic Plan 2013-2016 by____?
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
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Where can you find the following statement:
Researchers and Students are increasingly asking questions and addressing them in ways that challenge established disciplinary bounds
Strengthening Canada's Cultures of Innovation: Strategic Plan 2013-2016 by The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
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What does SSHRC stand for?
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
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"The topics of research in the social sciences and humanities are also central concerns of Canadians: Canada's place in the global economy, the success of aboriginal communities, the safety and security of our food systems - indeed, all the important issues of our time that concern human thought and behaviour."
Where can you find this sentence?
Strengthening Canada's Cultures of Innovation: Strategic Plan 2013-2016 by SSHRC,
or
The Summary and Unofficial Consolidation of the Statutes Relating to Dalhousie University by Dalhousie University
Strengthening Canada's Cultures of Innovation: Strategic Plan 2013-2016 by SSHRC
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'Canada's success in the 21st century will depend on what could be considered 'research preparedness.'
Who wrote the document that this sentence appears in? The SSHRC or the Government of Canada
The SSHRC, in 'Strengthening Canada's Cultures of Innovation: Strategic Plan 2013-2016'
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What types of person could hold any of these titles:
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Adjunct
Instructor
Sessional
Contract
Tenure-track
Emeritus
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Professor
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What is the question that 'definition' develops?
What is it?
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What is the question that 'chronology' develops?
When did it occur?
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What is the question that 'description' develops?
What does it look like?
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What is the question that 'Narration' develops?
How can it be told?
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What is the question that 'process' develops?
How does it work?
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What is the method of development that asks: How does it work?
Process
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What is the method of development that asks: Why should/Does it affect me?
Personal
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What is the method of development that asks: What causes/accounts for it?
Classification and Division
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What is the method of development that asks: What is the result/effect?
Cause-Effect
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What is the method of development that asks: What is the answer?
Question-Answer
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What is the method of development that asks: How can it be shown?
Example/Illustration
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What is the method of development that asks: How can it be (re)solved?
Problem-Solution
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What is the method of development that asks: What are the advantages and disadvantages?
Cost-Benefit
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What is the method of development that asks: How is it something else?
Analogy
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What is the method of development that asks: How is it like and/or unlike something else?
Comparison and contrasts
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What are the three levels of the mind?
The level of consciousness and awareness
The level of social participation
The level of imagination
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Mythopoetics
A hypothetical stage of human thought (prior to scientific thought) that produces myths.
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Garrison Mentality
Believes that characters are always looking outwards and building metaphorical walls against the outside world.
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The Educated Imagination by _____?
Northrop Frye
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"What difference does the study of literature make in our social or political or religious attitude?
Who said this? George Orwell (Politics and the English Language) or Northrop Frye (The Educated Imagination)
Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination
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The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment. Literature's world is a concrete human world of immediate experience. The poet uses images and objects and sensations much more than he uses abstract ideas; the novelist is concerned with telling stories, not with working out arguments.
Who said this and where?
Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination
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What are the main topics of The Educated Imagination by Northrop Frye?
The importance of imagination within English (the language), English (the subject), and literature.
The idea of the mother tongue
The functions of teachers, scholars, and literary critics
The levels of the mind.
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The Rebel Angels by ______?
Robertson Davies
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What are the main themes found within The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies?
Root and Crown
Hierarchies within the Academy
Rabelais
The relationships between students and teachers
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Campus novel
A novel whose main action is set in and around the campus of a university, and deals with matters of the Academy.
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Carnivalesque
Refers to a literary mode that subverts and liberates the assumptions of the dominant style or atmosphere through humor and chaos
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It's student Debt, Not the Economy, That Forces Millennials to Move in With Their Parents by _______?
Jordan Weissmann
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The rise of student debt and delinquencies could potentially explain about 30% of the increased frequency with which twentysomethings moved back in with their parents
Who wrote this, and where?
Jordan Weissmann, It's Student Debt, Not the Economy, That Forces Millennials to Move in With Their Parents
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The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 26, states that everyone has the right to what?
Education.
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Merit
The quality of being particularly good or worthy, especially so as to deserve praise or reward.
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Accessibility
Able to be easily obtained or used
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Average Student Debt Difficult to Pay Off, Delays Life Milestones by _______?
Aleksandra Sagan
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Now Take Canada by _______?
Uncle Bart
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What text starts with the line: 'To the editor of The Star'?
Now Take Canada: The Call of Youth by Uncle Bart
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Genre Convention
A typical or standard trope of plot, character, setting, icon, theme, or effect in a genre story.
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"But you must understand why the old system is passing and you must have a plan for the new. You are no longer satisfied with catchwords, shifts, and evasions."
Who wrote this? bell hooks (Engaged Pedagogy) or Uncle Bart (Now Take Canada)
Uncle Bart, Now Take Canada
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"We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory is possible - that we simply recognize different things at different times and in different ways.”
Who wrote this? Robertson Davies (The Rebel Angels), or Uncle Bart (Now Take Canada)
Robertson Davies, The Rebel Angels
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What are the main themes found within Now Take Canada by Uncle Bart?
The history of the academy
| The idea of returning to school and education
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The Universities and the Depression by __________?
Felix Walters
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Which author asked the following question, and in which text:
Are students any more radical than professors?
Felix Walters, The Universities and the Depression
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When is the Exam held, and where?
Monday, Dec. 8th at 3:30 PM
| In the Dalplex
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The Banking system
The name refers to the metaphor of students as empty containers which educators must deposit knowledge into.
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Thesis Statement
the main point of your essay or what you are trying to prove in it.
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Jargon
The language that is specific to a field that those involved clearly know.
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What does the acronym, FOCUS, stand for?
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Fine tuning
Overview of purpose and audience
Clarifying meaning
Underscoring ideas
Solidifying structure
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Linking verb
Joins a subject to a noun or adjective that follows the verb
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Prepositions
Join nouns or pronouns to the rest of the sentence, adding information to the subject or predicate.
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Conjunction
joins words, clauses, and phrases.
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Independent clause
A sentence with a subject and a predicate, and needs nothing else to complete it.
Stands alone as a sentence
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Dependent clause
Contains a subject and a predicate, but it expresses an incomplete thought because the information it contains is dependent on information by the independent clause.
Cannot stand alone
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Comma splice
Occurs when a comma is used to join two independent clauses.
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Parallelism
The principle element that the elements in a sentence that have the same grammatical function are expressed in parallel structures.
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Colloquilisms
Words and expressions acceptable in conversation, but not in formal writing
