Rhetorical Situation
An aspect of the rhetorical situation that has nothing to do with people.
What is time/place/setting. OR what is text.
In order to persuade, a writer pulls at the heartstrings of the audience.
What is pathos.
These are sources that are analyzed closely in order to make a claim.
What is a primary source.
The cat meowed at the dog.
What is an active sentence?
A way to read / a reading strategy.
What is a reading heuristic?
What is purpose? OR What is audience?
This happens in a debate when a person attacks the opponent rather than their idea.
A logical fallacy / attack against the man.
This is where an academic researcher publishes their work.
What is a scholarly journal.
It causes the audience to connect or entertain the authors' ideas; it makes the writing more like a conversation.
This reading heuristic has 4 factors to consider when looking at a text.
What is coming to terms?
The creator of a text within a rhetorical situation.
What is the author.
What is the organization or logical flow of an idea; what is data/stats used to support an argument.
Logos is credible when this happens.
What happens when the data is new, when the study is high quality, when the researchers have expertise in the research methods.
The author offers the reader a window into the world they don't understand through clear prose, active voice, unpretentious language.
Important factors that impact an author and what they create.
What is anything related to the authors' argument, such as their professional expertise, their politics, their personal life, and their race, class, gender, sexual orientation, abilities.
A claim of policy/call to action is an example of one of these.
A claim type.
What is a secondary source/secondary research.
Vernacular
Everyday speech common to a community or region, such as "ya'll."
When formulating a reaction to a text, a reader can do the following.
Pose questions, disagreements, agreements, note things they can relate to, ideas that seem to connect to what's said, seeing what's not being said that needs to be said.
Types of purposes an author might have.
What is a call to action? What is to challenge a longstanding belief? What is to praise or blame?
What are logical fallacies?
What is a newspaper?
What is said.
This is when you jot down notes in the text.