Elements of Rhetoric
This element describes the characteristics of the person or company that created the rhetorical piece.
What is Writer?
This element is what connects one paragraph to another or one sentence to another.
What are transitions?
This element names the paper.
What is a title?
Words that you type into search bars that aid in finding research material
What are Keywords?
Name of assignment where you were required to find sources and write a brief summary and plan for them
What is the annotated bibliography?
This element describes the people a rhetorical piece is intended for.
What is Audience?
This element draws readers in at the beginning of an essay.
What is a hook?
This convention gives credit to the quoted material in a paper.
What is a works cited page?
The "golden standard" or research according to our librarian.
What is "peer reviewed"?
The assignment that asked you to formulate an essay that address your research questions in an argumentative fashion
What is the research essay?
Titles of emotion, logic, and credibility in rhetoric (In order)
What are ethos, logos, and pathos
This element is one sentence that tells your reader what the whole essay will be about.
What is a thesis statement?
The four things that make up the MLA header (in order)
What is:
Name
Professor
Course Number
Date
The website can you access all of the university databases on
What is UA Libraries website?
The assignment that asked you to turn your research into a creative project.
What is the remix?
This element describes the meaning of a rhetorical piece.
What is purpose?
This element tells your reader, in one sentence, what a single paragraph will be about.
What is a topic sentence?
The font required for MLA
What is Times New Roman?
The three letter identification that you need to get to cite all online research. An identifying series of numbers that doesn't change.
What is the DOI?
The assignment that asked you to recall your growth over the course of the semester?
What is the Reflection paper?
The cultural why behind a rhetorical piece
What is Exigence?
This element ties your paper to a larger picture, typically at the end of the paper.
What is a "so-what"?
The two things, often forgotten, that go in the top right corner of a document.
What are last name and page number?
Name of operators that connect keywords in a search ("OR" "NOT" "AND")
What are Boolean Operators?
The title of the segment in all assignments where you brainstorm, write, and edit. The most important thing we have learned.
What is process?