Grammar
Writing an Essay
Class Texts
Vocabulary
Class concepts
100
Name the phenomenon that happened between those two sentences: Alcatraz, which is located on an island in the San Francisco Bay, ... Alcatraz, located on an island in the San Francisco Bay, ...
What is a reduction of clause
100
It announces the main idea in a paragraph
What is topic sentence
100
Bennett, Ellison, and Ball, who wrote about the Glass Ceiling, all work at this magazine...
What is Newsweek
100
To publicly defend
What is advocate
100
The three rhetorical appeals
What is ethos, logos, pathos
200
Point out the mistake and correct his sentence: They walked in with hats on their head.
What is hats on their heads
200
The three parts of an intro
What is hook, background, thesis
200
What was the proverb Miller used to open her essay about the benefits of educated parents on children?
What is "The Apple doesn't fall far from the tree"
200
The state of being inactive
What is inertia
200
Mode of reasoning which draws conclusions from a specific example
What is inductive reasoning
300
Make vs. do: What's the difference?
What is make=craft, create; do=accomplish
300
There are three ways to use and refer to an outside source in your essay
What is summarize, paraphrase, quote
300
Michael's Moore movie about a famous school shooting was called
What is Bowling for Columbine
300
Skillful and clever
What is crafty
300
Name the three types of claim
What is fact, value, policy
400
Transform this sentence, using verb inversion: If you had listened to the lecture, you could have aced the test
What is Had you listened to the lecture, you could have aced the test.
400
The margins of an essay in an MLA format should be...
What is one inch all around
400
Jones argued that "Violent Media is Good for Kids." His favorite hero was...
What is Hulk
400
Easily irritated
What is testy
400
Name the fallacy this argument is committing: "Drugs are bad because they're illegal"
What is circular reasoning
500
In grammar, the group of words between commas in this sentence is called Virginia Woolf, a famous British writer, walked into a river with stones in her pockets.
What is appositive
500
MLA stands for...
What is Modern Language Association
500
In her essay about plagiarism, Segal makes fun of one of her students who pleaded with her against the accusation that she'd plagiarized. Segal compared her plea to the five stages of...
What is grief
500
Extremely difficult to understand
What is obtuse
500
We reviewed two models of argument, named after their two authors. Name them.
What is Rogerian and Toulmin
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