Key Terms and Phrases
Writing Techniques
The Process
Styles and Conventions of Academic Writing
I <3 Rhetoric
100
To paraphrase an author's point of view.
What is a summary?
100
Freewriting, webbing, and flowcharting.
What are invention strategies?
100
To comprehend the writing assignment.
What is Understanding the Task?
100
Organize a synthesis by_______, not by sources.
What are ideas?
100
The art of persuasion.
What is the classical definition of rhetoric?
200
To demonstrate how two or more sources are related to one another by ideas.
What is an explanatory synthesis?
200
Local, Global, and Surface
What are the three types of revisions?
200
To write the meat and potatoes of your paper, or the sections necessary for supporting your thesis.
What is Drafting?
200
I am using this voice whenever it is that I am wanting to sound how it is that my teacher is sounding when he is talking about his issue statements
What is the passive voice?
200
If it is neither pathos nor ethos, then it is_______.
What is logos?
300
ethos, pathos, and logos in an equilateral geometrical shape
What is the rhetorical triangle?
300
Flow.
What is coherency?
300
Reading yours sources critically for information.
What is Gathering Data or Research?
300
Not to favor either side of the issue; to be unbiased
What is objective?
300
I evoke emotion.
What is pathos?
400
To demonstrate your authority on a given subject and convince your audience that you know what you're talking about.
What is "establish your ethos"
400
To place words and phrases, phrases and words in the form x and y, y and x
What is parallelism?
400
Organizing your paper / developing its structure
What is Invention?
400
A research paper is an example of this bringing together of ideas and taking a side on the issue.
What is the argumentative synthesis?
400
A sentence that makes a claim, and in which it is okay to use the personal pronoun "I" in this class.
What is a thesis statement.
500
To name the debate that is going on; it is often spoken of in terms of "raising"
What is stating the issue?
500
To use action verbs instead of being verbs.
What is the active voice?
500
Reviewing your paper for formal and surface mistakes.
What is Editing?
500
The insincere devil that undermines ethos; the lowest form of wit.
What is sarcasm or irony?
500
Those who are associated with the negative connotation of rhetoric.
Who are politicians?
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