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Human physiology

Language; General language

Study of live human organic functions. Linguistically, these are neural, cardiovascular, pulmonary, as well as muscle and tendon functioning to matter most to speech. Already the common cold can ...

Doublespeak

Language; General language

Language that is deliberately deceptive and aims to distort, disguise or reverse meaning. The term was popularised in George Orwell's novel 1984.

Cueing systems

Language; General language

There are three interrelated signals or systems used in the reading process: ~Semantic (meaning related) – semantic cues refer to the meaning attached to individual words and the interrelationships ...

Description

Language; General language

A form of discourse, the purpose of which is to picture a scene or setting. Though often used apart for its own sake, it more frequently is subordinated to one of the other types of writing; ...

Critical standards

Language; General language

Personal, shared, and academic criteria for judging the quality of oral, written, and visual texts. It is the label for Content Standard 12.

Evaluating and responding to text

Language; General language

Making assumptions and assertions about the content and merit of text that is supported and expressed.

Culminating performance

Language; General language

Final product/outcome, usually referring to an end-of-semester, end-of-course, or end-of-high-school assessment task.

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