Rhetorical Situation
Exigence, Purpose, Message, Contaxt, Audience, Writer.
What is the rhetorical situation?
Paraphrase, quotation, and summary are all examples of this.
What is citation?
Comparison, Narrative, and Description are all examples of what?
What are methods of development?
This is how words, phrases, and clauses are arranged together to create meaning.
What is syntax?
This writing convention dictates that no contractions may be used and first person pronouns should be avoided.
What is formal voice?
This country is both an island and a continent.
What is Australia?
This is the actual words the writer puts on the page.
What is the message?
All citations need this to connect them to your line of reasoning.
What is commentary?
These are words and phrases that connect ideas in your essay smoothly so as to preserve cohesion.
What are transitions?
This is the element of style that might make you decide between the words 'sesquipedalian' and 'wordy.'
What is diction?
Commas are used for pauses, periods are used for full stops,a dn colons are used before lists and examples.
What is punctuation?
This is the land of the rising sun.
What is Japan?
This is what promps the writer to act.
What is exigence?
This is the part of your introduction where you might give a preview or foreshadow of the points you plan to make in your essay.
What is the blueprint?
This is the term that means that the points in your line of reasoning have been laid out in an optimal order for the ease of understanding by your audience.
What is coherence?
This is the element of style that might make you choose between the words 'employ' and 'exploit.'
What is connotation?
The five paragraph essay.
What is a basic writign convention?
This is the largest language family in the world with over 3.3 billion speakers.
What is Indo-European?
This should only be formulated after several cycles of research have been completed.
What is rhetorical purpose?
This punctuation is used in a citation to indicate a change made by the author within the quote such as correcting incorrect grammar or changing the conjugation of the verb.
What is the bracketed elipses? [...]
You studied these in class while Mr. Robertson was sick and Dr. Flanagan was subbing class.
What are argument maps?
This is the element of style that makes your essay identifiable as uniquely yours and no one else's.
What is voice?
This type of paragraphing would be acceptable in online publications and journals.
What is spaces between paragraphs and no indents?
This is the furtherst northern permanently inhabited land in the world.
What is Svalbard?
This is the only aspect of the rhetorical situation that we did not explicitly study in Unit 1.
What is the writer?
In most citation styles, any quote over three lines of prose or four lines of poetry should use this convention.
What is a block quote?
Outlining.
What is the one tip Mr. Robertson keeps telling you to use when taking written proficiency tests?
This is the element of the rhetorical situation which might most dramatically impact your writing style.
What is the audience?
Other than being centered, these should not differ conventionally from the body text of your essay.
What are titles?
This is the vertebrate animal species that lives the longest.
What is the greenland shark?