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Autobiography (noun)Autobiography (noun)Definition: Definition: Writing about a Writing about a

person’s life person’s life written by that written by that personperson

David Beckham authored his own autobiography.

Autograph (noun)Autograph (noun)

Definition: Definition: The writing of The writing of

one’s own nameone’s own name

The famous baseball player signed my autograph book.

Bibliography (noun)Bibliography (noun)

Definition:Definition: The written list The written list

of all the books of all the books used in a report used in a report or bookor book

Always remember to include a bibliography at the end of your report. This gives credit to the books, web sites, etc. in which you got your information.

Works Cited

Hinton, S.E., The Outsiders, p. 18-24.

Suess, Dr., Green Eggs and Ham, p. 12-14.

Biography (noun)Biography (noun)

Definition:Definition: A book written A book written

about a person’s about a person’s lifelife

Albert Goldman wrote a biography on the life of the famous Beatle, John Lennon.

Cartography (noun)Cartography (noun)

Definition:Definition: Map makingMap making The writing The writing

involved in involved in making maps or making maps or chartscharts

My uncle studied cartography in college and is now a famous mapmaker.

Homograph (noun)Homograph (noun)

Definition:Definition: A word written A word written

the same way as the same way as another word another word but having a but having a different different meaningmeaning

Examples:

Her hair bow was green.

The ship’s bow was damaged in the storm.

Does that make sense? (verb)

Does are female deer.

Paragraph (noun)Paragraph (noun)

Definition:Definition: A section of A section of

writing that has writing that has a topic and a a topic and a concluding concluding sentencesentence

In class we use the TSSSR format to organize our paragraphs.

Phonograph (noun)Phonograph (noun)

Definition:Definition: Record playerRecord player A device that A device that

turns writing on turns writing on records into records into soundsound

My grandmother still has her phonograph from the 1800’s.

Photography (noun)Photography (noun)

Definition:Definition: The use of light The use of light

to record an to record an image using a image using a cameracamera

In photography class I learned how to take and develop pictures.

SeismographSeismograph

Definition:Definition: A device that A device that

writes down the writes down the movements of movements of earthearth

The seismograph measured the earthquake.