Rhetorical Moves
This rhetorical appeal signifies the author's credibility to the audience.
What is ethos?
The first criteria that a DC must meet according to Swales.
What is having a common goal?
Another name for conventions of a genre.
What is a rhetorical move?
This is the term that describes the metaphorical space which all scholars enter into when they write on a topic that is already a part of an ongoing conversation.
What is the Burkean Parlor?
The following source is cited in this citation style: Held, J. R. "Epic Messengers in Homer, Virgil, and Milton: Repetition and Gender in Paradise Lost." Philological Quarterly, vol. 101, nos. 1-2, 2022, pp. 1-24, https://[webaddress]
What is MLA?
This rhetorical appeal uses logic/reason to engage with the audience.
What is logos?
A DC possesses and utilizes one or more of these in the overall furtherance of their goals.
What is genre?
The term that describes the ability to take skills out of one context and apply it to another context.
What is learning transfer?
This will always be the defining factor that determines how you write anything for any purpose, regardless of the genre.
Who is the audience?
The four pieces of information that must be listed in the top left corner of the first page of your essay when utilizing MLA citation style (in order).
What is your name, instructor's name, course number, and due date?
This rhetorical appeal is used to elicit an emotional response from the audience.
What is pathos?
This type of DC is constrained to one physical location.
What is a local DC?
This occurs in any genre and tells you the who, what, when, where, and why of how a person is trying to modify the perspective of their audience.
What is the rhetorical situation?
The art of persuasion.
What is rhetoric?
In this citation style, the year always falls after the author's name for in-text citations as well as on your bibliography.
What is APA?
This rhetorical appeal means knowing the right place and right time to utilize it, otherwise your efforts are wasted.
What is kairos?
This type of DC can span across a region, a nation, or internationally.
What is a focal DC?
The names of the 5 genres that you wrote/are writing for this class (in order).
What is the open letter, the rhetorical analysis, the genre analysis, the discourse community analysis, and the closing reflection?
This is a group of people who communicate to find, produce, and refine knowledge.
What is a research community?
This visual aid is used to depict the relationship between speaker/author, message, audience, tone, style, purpose, ethos, pathos, and logos.
What is the rhetorical triangle?
This person came up with the rhetorical appeals.
Who is Aristotle?
This DC characteristic is defined as rhythms of activity or a sense of history that is used as criteria for evaluating what is good and less good work within the group.
What are horizons of expectation?
This is how genre is created according to Dirk.
When someone says something that requires a response, someone must respond first. When the situation occurs again, others will use the first person's response to gauge their response, and it will continue until everyone is basing their answers on how everyone else has previously responded to the situation.
This type of DC is a hybrid community with internal and external challenges/pressures.
What is a folocal DC?
The 8 characteristics of a DC according to Swales.
1. Must have a broadly agreed upon set of goals
2. Has mechanisms of intercommunication
3. Uses participatory mechanisms to provide information and feedback
4. Utilizes and possesses one or more genres
5. Has specific lexis
6. Has a threshold of members with expertise
7. Has silential relations
8. Has horizons of expectation