Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively

Glossary

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Academic vocabulary or academic language includes words that are traditionally used in academic 

text, but may not be often used in conversation or more general writing.

Audience refers to the reader for whom a piece of writing is intended. Audience can range from the 

writer who produces the text (e.g., a diary entry) to peers, teachers, parents, or other groups of people.

Author’s craft includes the language choices, sentence structure, and organization an author uses 

to convey meaning and evoke responses in a reader. Sometimes author’s craft is referred to as style.