Terms
Genres of Writing
Threshold Concepts
People
100

What is a research question?

A focused statement of what a specific inquiry is trying to find out.
100

What is known as "rhetorical actions in response to recurrent situations or situation-types"

Genres

100

What does "Writing is a process, and all writers have more to learn" mean?

Writing is a process of composing and not just in words.

200

What are motivations?

The reasons or desires of doing, saying or thinking something.

200

What are sets of genres that interact to achieve a function within a system

Genre systems

200

Fill in the blank.  "Writing is influenced by identities and ____"

Prior experiences.

200

Who said "With our thoughts, we make the world?"

Buddha

300

What is rhetoric?

The study or performance of human interaction.

300

What is one of the four questions when looking at a new or unfamiliar genre

Questions about situational elements

Questions about substantive characteristics

Questions about stylistic characteristics

Questions about the organizing principle

300

Writing is what other than something people do?

Something people study through inquiry

300

Who traced the genre used by hospital social workers?

Anthony Pare

400

What is exigence?

The need or reason for an act of communication.

400

What do Wardle and Downs compare genres to

Maps

400

What challenges the notion that writing is just a basic skill?

Writing needs to be studied

400

Who describes genre systems as "sets of genres interacting to achieve an overarching function within an activity system"

Amy Devitt

500

What are genres?

Recognizable forms of writing that respond to repeating situations.

500

What is something that is typical, something that happens so often that it becomes habitual

Typified

500

Who called learning threshold concepts an integrative experience?

Meyer and Land

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