Academic+Vocabulary

[|Vocabulary]

1. What did you learn about academic vocabulary from watching the video clip? I learned that academic writing is a lot more specific and complicated while street slang is a lot easier to understand.
 * Activity # 2.1: Lets' Get Started:**

2. How would you define academic vocabulary? I define academic vocabulary as voabulary that a person would use when doing something that is formal or professional. I think that academic vocabualry is a lot more sophisticated.

3. Predict how academic vocabulary can help you be successful in your social studies classes as well as other academic classes? It gives someone's writing/speech a lot more structure. I think that a lot of academic vocabualry can be similar in definitions to each other but are still usesd different. Academic writing is also effective when someone is trying to get their point across.


 * 2.2: What you know about Academic terms**

__Imply/Infer:__ Thay are different because to infer is to make a guess without knowing everything but to imply is to just make a suggestion about something. __Bias/Point of View__: They are similar because they are what a person thinks or feels. However bias opinions are usual personal opinions that are unfair and a point of veiw isn't. __Evaluate/Assess:__ They are similar because they are making a judgement and estimating the value of. However to assess also has realtion to issues with money. __ Analysis/Interpret: __ They are similar because you are trying to make sense of something but studying it. They are different because a perosn has to interpret something sucha s a grpah and an analysis is to study the different parts of something.
 * Activity 2.3: What you know about Academic terms:**



bias. || find something out. || How is Nuance used in a sentence? || my great-great-grandmother. ||
 * Activity 2.4: New Vocabulary **
 * WORD || DEFINITION || CCQ's ||
 * Validity || Something that is true and provable. || Things are not always valid because of people's
 * Validity || Something that is true and provable. || Things are not always valid because of people's
 * Nuance || Having to look inside of a document to
 * Authentic || The original copy of something. || I have an authentic corset from 1908 that belonged to

I think that the Visual Thesaurus would be most helpful. I like how the thesarus has options on the words that you can improve. However I don't really like how the words slink around everywhere.
 * Activity 2.5: Evaluate other Vocabualry Tools:**