Synthesis & Argument
According to the rubric, the thesis statement must be this.
What is defensible?
What is warrant or commentary?
A bold statement, a quote, a statistic, a thought-provoking question are all examples of these.
What is a grabber?
A recipe that Joan Didion wrote down in her notebook.
What is sauerkraut?
He was famous for many contributions, including aphorisms.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
These words indicate the organization of the piece.
What are transitional words?
One of the sources will be this.
What is an image?
This immature phrase needs to be reworded with something more sophisticated.
What is "in the text it says"?
Maya Angelou said that language alone separates us from ____________.
Who are the lower animals?
His book is still considered the most famous self-help book.
Who is Dale Carnegie?
This is what you create when you explain how your evidence supports your claim.
What is warrant?
Name three types of images.
What are photos, drawings, political cartoons, schedules, graphs, maps, agendas, polls, routes, etc.?
The rubric accounts for four varieties of sophistication: complexities, vivid language, broader context, and _________ ____________.
What are rhetorical choices?
Marcel Marceau talked about communicating through silence. This seems fitting, since he was a _____.
What is a mime?
Carnegie believed that doing this was an unsuccessful way to communicate with people.
What is criticism?
This is the only difference between the argument and synthesis.
What are provided sources?
The number of minutes suggested to write a Synthesis essay.
What is 55?
A little story, or ____ , can make for a nice grabber.
What is an anecdote?
The mistress of the house was teaching Frederick Douglass to read and write until this force stopped her.
Who is her husband?
List two of the categories Ericsson gives in "The Ways We Lie."
What are The White Lie, Facades, Ignoring the Plain Facts, Deflecting, Omission, Stereotypes and Cliches, Groupthink, Out-and-out lies, Dismissal, Delusion?
Rhetor, Purpose, and Audience comprise this shape and theory.
What is the Rhetorical Triangle?
What is pathos?
List two transitions that show sequence without a number.
What are next, then, following, now, after, subsequently, finally, consequently, previously, thus, therefore, hence?
The reason teenaged Amy Tan called the stockbroker.
What is pretending to be her mother (due to the language barrier)?
S/he feels that we should overcome nervousness when we communicate because we need to teach the important message that we know.
Who is Kamala Harris?