SPACE CAT
The thing that SPACE CAT stands for
What is; Speaker, Purpose, Audience, Context, Exigence, Choices, Appeals, and Tone?
Three appeals that can strengthen your argument.
What is an appeal to emotion, logic, and credibility.
Something the introduction should include.
What is context and background information?
Something that must be included in the first paragraph of a rhetorical analysis, unlike the other essay types.
What is SPACE?
Something every good thesis must do.
How do you introduce a defensible claim.
When describing an author's purpose, do not use this verb.
What is "shows?"
What an author that advocates for universal healthcare yet cites arguments against it is doing.
What is addressing a counterargument?
What is the number 3?
The number of rhetorical choices in each body paragraph?
What is the number 1?
The body paragraphs, typically have more ____ than _____.
What is commentary and evidence.
When an author cites a historical account of the black plague.
What is an appeal to logic?
3 sources of evidence can come from; ______ experience, ______ events, and _______.
What is personal experience, current events, and history?
According to Daniel Smith's comprehensive "History of Metallurgic Innovations," "Medieval Europe will home to many ancient inventions in iron-working." (1).
What is an in-text citation?
The body paragraphs should have more ____ than ____.
What is commentary and evidence?
The tone and diction should be ____ throughout the essay.
How do you be consistent?
Things about the audience which can always be specified.
What are age and nationality?
When a US president recites a Bible passage or announces the success of his administration.
What is an appeal to credibility, and or a higher power?
What is paraphrasing evidence?
Something good commentary does.
How do you connect evidence to the author's purpose?
What is an open thesis?
A rhetorical choice characterized by placing two sometimes contrasting ideas or elements next to one another; not too far away from the school is an eerie graveyard.
What is juxtaposition?
A logical fallacy in which a writer begins with what they are ending with, preassuming the ending is true.
What is circular reasoning?
Synthesis Essays and Argumentative essays both do this.
What is argue a claim or debunk counterclaims?
Diction in your essay should be ____, like; illustrates or urges.
What is specific?
The mistake a straight-A student made that landed him/her a 1/4 on an otherwise amazing essay.
What is not answering the prompt?