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Flashcards covering key organizational writing patterns, language concepts, and specific essay readings discussed throughout the lecture.

Narration

An organizational pattern of writing focused on storytelling.

Description

An organizational writing pattern centered on describing something in detail.

Expository (Informative) Writing

A pattern of writing where the author informs the audience about a topic using examples without taking a side or proving a specific claim.

Argumentative Writing

A writing pattern where the author makes a claim and provides proof on a topic that could have multiple sides.

Process Analysis

An organizational writing pattern that explains how something works.

Extended Definition Essay

An essay in which the primary objective across multiple paragraphs or the entire text is defining an important term.

Code Switching

The practice of shifting between formal standard language and informal dialects, tones, or slang depending on the context and company.

Sympathy

Understanding and feeling for someone because you have personally experienced a similar situation or been in their shoes.

Empathy

The ability to understand and feel for someone else's emotions or struggles even if you have not experienced that exact situation yourself.

Cultural Empathy

The capacity to feel for, relate to, and understand people from different cultural backgrounds and life experiences.

Mother Tongue

Reading 4.2, which explores the concept of using different Englishes in daily life, such as formal English with peers versus informal or non-standard English with family.

The Bilingual Imagination

Reading 4.3, which contrasts old theories that native languages hinder English learning with modern research showing bilingualism enhances brain development, creativity, and empathy.

My Two Lives

An essay by a Bengali-American author reflecting on second-generation immigrant identity and navigating dual cultures that initially felt like they canceled each other out.