Authors Purpose - the reason an author writes about a particular topic (e.g., to persuade, to entertain, to inform, to explain, to analyze, etc.), Controlling Idea - the main point or underlying direction of a piece of writing, Credibility - the quality of having reliable and trustworthy characteristics which may be influenced by an author having expertise on a topic, using unbiased and accurate reasoning, evidence, and sources to support ideas, Graphic Feature - picture or other image within a text, Informational Text - a text that presents information in order to explain, clarify, and/or educate, Key Idea - important ideas throughout a work that support the central message, theme, tone, etc., Paraphrase - restate the meaning of something in different words., Primary Source - a source from the time in which an event being studied occurred and created by someone who was present at the event, Research Plan - a timeline created around the research process that identifies the initial steps needed to find accurate, significant, and relevant sources to support the topic of inquiry or working thesis, Secondary Source - a source that is a step removed from the original accounts of an event or experience, Summarize - to reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main idea. , Text Structure - the way or pattern in which an author organizes ideas within a text, Text Feature - any characteristic of the text outside the main body of the text that helps convey meaning such as titles, charts, photographs, timelines, footnotes, etc.,

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