Analysis
Contrary to popular belief, this cognitive process is highly relevant to everyday decision-making, not only in academic environments.
What is analysis?
(or critical thinking)
The art or practice of persuasion.
What is rhetoric?
Be curious, be engaged, be creative, be open and flexible, be persistent, be responsible, think about the way you think, and be true to yourself are all __________ for success in college.
What are habits?
The ability to control or influence.
What is power?
This kind of exchange is not a winner-versus-loser debate, a one-way attempt to send a message, or an effort to convert someone who disagrees with you.
What is intentional dialogue?
______________ analysis asks open-ended questions that require examination, evidence, and insight rather than a simple factual response.
What is rhetorical?
This practice helps us consider the circumstances surrounding a particular piece of rhetoric, including considerations of the writer, audience, topic, purpose, context, and culture.
What is the rhetorical situation?
Academic writing requires that we present our ideas as a ____________ to others.
What is a response?
(or dialogue; conversation)
Refers to the advantages or benefits available to some and not to others.
What is privilege?
Race, gender, body size, and economic class are all examples of _________ _____________.
What are social identities?
When we defined analysis in class, we used the analogy of a __________ to show how something can be broken down into its component parts.
What is a house?
This rhetorical practice asks you to develop strong critical and ethical habits of mind that will help you engage with others in responsible ways.
What is rhetorical thinking?
Academic writing is often organized in a way that is clear and easy for readers to understand because it has recognizable _______________.
What are patterns?
Linguistic _________________ is the unfair treatment, strerotyping, or devaluation of individuals based on their speech, accent, native language, or dialect.
What is discrimination?
This effective listening skill asks us to tune into the nonverbal cues of others.
What is attending?
Rhetorical __________ are appeals or tools that writers use to persuade.
What are strategies?
This rhetorical practice helps you make deliberate choices about how to read so that you can understand, remember, question, and respond to the text.
What is reading rhetorically?
Each academic discipline has its own set of ______________ that are frequently employed when writing.
What are conventions?
Linguistic __________________ is the process by which conventional forms of language are established and maintained.
What is standardization?
________________ is an effective listening skill that invites us to move between listening and sharing our own views, relating to a dialogue partner, but being clear about the differences in your own thoughts and feelings.
What is Bridging the Gap?
List the five characteristic features of analysis:
What are an unanswerable question or problem, some description of the subject, evidence and examination, insight gained, and clear, precise language?
Name the six elements of the rhetorical situation.
What are the writer, audience, topic, purpose, context, and culture?
Intellectual and emotional development in college requires students to grow more surely into the person they want to become, which does not mean leaving behind your beliefs, but _____________ your earlier values and possibly revising them.
What is questioning?
An educational and linguistic approach that explores how language choices, grammar, and words shape social attitudes and reflect power.
What is critical language awareness?
Name the five characteristics of intentional dialogue:
What are love (mutual regard), humility, hope, critical thinking, and trust?