Matching Pairs Informative Vocabulary 11.1AOnline version Academic Language for Literary Texts 11.1B by Gabriel Areas 1 Explicitly 2 Support 3 Prior Knowledge 4 Analysis 5 Strong 6 Uncertain 7 Citation 8 Detail 9 Draw 10 Fact 11 Inference 12 Textual Evidence 13 Thorough 14 Experience 15 Matter facts or information used as support for whether a belief or proposition is true or valid personal contact with a fact or event or an observation of a fact or event a piece of information used as evidence; the truth about a person, place, thing, or idea able to perform a specified action well and powerfully written with great care and completeness clearly stated a particular fact or piece of information about something or someone make the act of breaking into smaller components for the purpose of study or examination an issue or concern awareness gained before personal contact with a fact, event, or observation a logical assumption based on observed facts from the text and one’s own knowledge and/or experience the location of a reference from a text brought forward as a support (more useful when it includes the line number, page number, paragraph number, and/or author—especially when reading more than one text on the same topic or theme) not exactly known or decided to hold up; reinforce