Essential Academic Words, Part 2



Essential Academic Words, Part 2

Assess: Examine critically, and estimate the merit, significance, or value.

Cite: Refer to/quote what someone else has written or said as evidence for your argument and then give credit to your source with the page number, website, etc. where the information came from.

Criticize/Critique: Discuss the good and bad elements in a text, a film, or something else. Give evidence to justify your claims.

Define: Give the meaning of a term with enough detail to show that you really understand it.

Demonstrate: To clearly show something by giving evidence as proof.

Discuss: Give reasons with details. Explore from different perspectives. Look at the pros and cons.

Distinguish: Recognize and point out a difference.

Effect: Whatever is produced by a cause; something made to happen by a person or thing; result. (n.)

Element: The basic and essential parts of something abstract. (n.)

Enumerate: Count off or list examples, reasons, causes, or effects—one by one.

Formulate: Create your own.

Generate: To produce or create, or to build up.

Identify: To establish or indicate who or what (someone or something) is; to list and explain.

Illustrate: Make the point or idea clear by giving examples.

Infer: To figure out based on what you already know; to make an educated guess based on evidence.

Justify: To give reasons for your claim (in an academic argument).

List: To prepare a set of things in a particular order, especially because of how important they are.

Outline: Make an organized listing of the important points of a subject.

Paraphrase: To re-write something using your own words to express the meaning of something and try to make it more clear; usually almost as long as original.

Relate: Show the connections between things or how one thing causes another.

Respond: State your overall reaction (response) to the content, and then support your response with specific reasons and examples, often referring back to the reading.

Solve: Come up with a solution based on given information and your knowledge.

State: Give the main points in brief, clear form.

Synthesize: Pull together and combine parts to make a new and coherent whole; requires looking for common attributes among the parts in order to link them together.

Trace: To list all the steps in correct order.

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