Zaney Zadie
"Still Life With Apple"
Mighty Writerly Moves
Dishearteningly Difficult Details
500
Complete the following line: "My own childhood had been... the synthesis __ _______ ______."
What is "synthesis of disparate things."
500
This yellow-colored fruit wrote about "conventional things in conventional ways," breaking the no cliches rule.
Who is Banana.
500
In which one thinks about their own thinking patterns.
What is metacognition?
500
This term refers to a diminished state of cognition resulting from overuse of AI.
What is Cognitive Debt?
750
This author wrote the famous play Pygmalion.
Who is George Barnard Shaw?
750
A strong personal statement does these three rhetorical moves.
What is Description, Reflection, Analysis?
750
This skill, coined by Linda Flower, describes writing that anticipates the needs of an audience.
What is Reader-Based?
750
This famous scholar coined the term "knowledgable ignorance."
Who is Stuart Firestein?
1000
This term, coined by John Keats, describes one's ability to "be capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason."
What is Negative Capability?
1000
This writerly skill and three-word phrase means to assemble strategic details, images, and dialogue in order to dramatize something happening, rather than directly explain to your reader something is occurring.
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What is "Show Don't Tell."
1000
A feedback strategy, Nancy Sommers described this term in 1980 with the phrase dramatize the presence of the reader.
What is Descriptive Feedback?
1000
Prof Anderson owns this breed of dog.
What is a pug? 
1500
The title of Barack Obama's memoir.
What is "Dreams From My Father."
1500
This phrase refers to language that puts down others — something worth avoiding in your Personal Statement.
What are "Downward Social Comparisons."
1500
These two tests can help you figure out if you have a Complex or Simple essay structure.
What are the Shuffle Test and Transitions Test.
1500
The due date for your first round of college essay drafts, submitted via our Google Classroom page.
What is September 1st?