Essay Structure
Potpourri
Digital Composition
Peer Review/Revision
Research & Citations
100

The final statement of an introduction.

The thesis statement.

100

The three Greek terms for credibility, logic, and emotion.

Ethos, logos, pathos

100

New media audiences are fragmented, selective, and expect a ______ element in the content they consume.

Participatory

100

Peer review should always consist of _______ criticism.

Constructive

100

The most common citation formats in academic writing are APA and this additional 3-letter acronym.

MLA

200

The three sections of a traditional essay include:

Intro, body, and conclusion

200

In constructing proposals, one needs to establish this at the outset.

What is the problem? Research Question?

200

Strategies for multimodal composition include being tool neutral, which means...

Being open to including various multimedia elements

200

True or false: during peer review, along with suggesting areas for improvement, you may also point out sections that are particularly well-done.

True

200

Essays traditionally include this page at the very end.

Works Cited

300

Transitions between paragraphs accomplish this.

connecting ideas; flow between paragraphs

300

Questions you should ask yourself in essay writing are "so what" and this:

Who cares?

300

Participation with new media composition can be active and passive--an example of active participation includes:

Commenting; sharing

300

One benefit of peer review is helping you recognize where you might improve this feature of your own essay.

Structure

300

The MLA format for in-text citations includes, within parentheses, the last name of the author(s) and the _____.

page number

400

Rhetorical strategies include process, narrative, description, exemplification, classification, and this strategy that can be a focus on one or the other.

cause and effect

400

This psychologist believed that dialogue and a conversational--non confrontational--approach encouraged readers to be open to persuasion.

Karl Rogers/Rogerian Argument

400

In considering the role of the author in digital composition as designer, we can consider the role of the reader as this:

The player
400

One particular strategy for reviewing sentence structure and flow involves this--the most time efficient strategy for revision.

Reading outloud

400

Rigorous research includes consulting scholarly sources in order to establish _______.

Credibility; ethos

500

These types of words or phrases are often used for purposes of transition and introducing source material.

signal words/phrases

500

PEEL is an acronym for paragraph sandwiches. What do the letters stand for?

Point Evidence Explain Link

500

The Greek term for audience awareness. Not chronos/chronological understanding of time, but placing your argument in the significance of now.

Kairos

500

What should you look at to ensure the essay is correct in form and content?

Assignment guidelines and myhills information

500

Whether researching in the hard sciences or social sciences, rhetorical strategies include making YOUR argument, anticipating objections, and explaining why it ______. What are three two-word questions that can help focus your writing?

Matters--

So What? Who Cares? Why Now? Says Who?

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