Concepts and tools involving academic literacy
All about summary
All about analysis
All about argument
All about this course
100
The situation in which you make choices as a speaker/writer, trying to send a message to someone as audience, is by nature this kind of situation. Hint: r……….
What is the rhetorical situation
100
Brief summaries of an article’s contents or a brief forecast of a research study.
What is an abstract?
100
This kind of analysis demands a close reading of a work of literature followed by a written interpretation of meaning in that work.
What is literary analysis?
100
This theory helps communicators determine which arguments will be successful and which are likely to fail.
What is stasis theory?
100
Knowing how to comprehend and interpret, and how to present information clearly and ethically via oral and written communication. (e.g. how to develop a sense of audience; how to write as a process; how to use writing to learn concepts; etc.?)
What are the Course Outcomes at a fabulous university called CSUMB?
200
These are the many kinds of literacy.
What are literal literacy, cultural literacy, critical literacy, academic literacy, and cyber literacy (p.8)
200
A Works Cited page with brief summaries of each bibliographic entry.
What is an annotated bibliography?
200
This type of analysis places a text within its rhetorical situation to examine its basic elements such as speaker/author, audience, exigency, etc.
What is a rhetorical analysis?
200
This method of argumentation values consensus building over arguing over who “wins” an argument.
What is a Rogerian Argument or Rogerian Persuasion?
200
The process of gathering thoughts and ideas regarding a topic or issue, developing these thoughts into a coherent series of paragraphs, and then reconsider how effective the writing is in terms of the rhetorical/communicative situation involving a speaker, an audience, and purpose (or specific occasion).
What is a writing/drafting process?
300
This particular shape or graphic has the basic elements involving the writer/author, message, and reader/audience
What is the communication triangle?
300
When you do this, you are not only delineating main points but putting the main points of different texts into dialogue with one another as well.
What is a synthesis?
300
This kind is the study and exam of evidence presented as forms of numerical data that represent the collection of factual info.
What is a statistical analysis?
300
This argument or method of such is contemporary and is used to analyze an existing argument.
What is the Toulman Argument or Method?
300
The process of familiarizing oneself about a particular topic, processing the words in an article, making sense of what is said, and then repeating the process taking note of the structure of the piece from the title, the thesis (if applicable), the subheadings (if applicable), the topic sentences, and the conclusion.
What is the reading process?
400
The major genres or specific forms of writing expected within the academic community.
What are types of writing that involves summary, analysis, evaluation, and argument.
400
This one contains a review (survey of key points) plus your personal opinion of the information presented in the source.
What is a summary-response or reading response?
400
This type of analysis is the exam of a visual message—such as an ad, a work of art, a website, or a film.
What is an image or a visual analysis?
400
Doing this is making a statement in which a world-view or value is expressed.
What is an assertion?
400
The place on this campus where learning assistance regarding writing, math, science, technology, and language (e.g. Spanish, Japanese, etc.) assignments are supported.
What is ASAP?
500
The practice of using the conventions or the “habits of mind” of a particular academic discipline in order to communicate as a participant and member of that community.
What is academic literacy?
500
This type of writing relies not just on summaries of existing sources but also summaries of research findings, including findings from research done by the writer.
What is a report?
500
Analysis is the single most important writing skill for developing this kind of attitude.
What is an academic attitude?
500
This type of writing is a kind of argument that seeks to persuade an audience to take action.
What is a proposal?
500
This metaphor of a place in which there is an on-going conversation of some very specific topics; and, when you want to join in, you would start by listening what has been discussed and then seek the right moment to speak using the right language conventions.
What is the Burkean Palor?
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