Starts with /R/
The study of how written and visual language influences an audience
Rhetoric
These are your readers or viewers or listeners
Audience
Your main point or your position
THESIS
The first version of a formal piece of writing
Draft
You receive this from a reviewer who reads your draft
FEEDBACK
Strengthening and improving a piece of writing
Revising
An appeal to emotion
Pathos
A paragraph starter; serves as a preview
TOPIC SENTENCE
A practice a writing quickly, without concern for conventions, or even meaning
FREEWRITING
A phrase like “According to So-and-so” -- used in research writing
SIGNAL PHRASE
The process of stepping back to examine your decisions, strengths, and challenges as a writer
Reflection
An appeal related to credibility or trustworthiness
ETHOS
helps readers move from sentence to sentence
transition
A way of taking notes in response to a reading
DIALECTICAL NOTEBOOK
graphic organizer to show a plan for interconnected ideas
a cluster map/diagram
A rhetorical device in which you say something over and over
Repetition
An appeal to reason
LOGOS
Sources, data, and quotations
EVIDENCE
Writing about another writer's style and techniques
RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
Word for a type of writing--personal letter, for example
genre
A term from a French theorist that names a writer's main concern when revising.
Readerly
Something that people on all sides of a debate can agree on
COMMON GROUND
A statement that represents an objection to your position
COUNTERARGUMENT
A writer who waits until the eleventh hour to begin working
PROCRASTINATOR
a text composed of both verbal and nonverbal modes of communication, like Junior's Diary
MULTIMODAL