Rhetoric and the writing process
Documenting and citing sources
Presenting information and types of writing
Miscellaneous
Finding and vetting sources
100

This word describes who you are writing for.

Audience.

100

This type of writing does not document sources within parentheses or through footnotes/endnotes, but by describing details of the source within the sentence/paragraph where the information is referenced.

Journalistic

100

This type of writing tells your reader a story.

Narrative

100

You can use this powerful technology to represent your spoken language and communicate information to almost anyone via numerous technological platforms.

Writing

100

This type of source is not peer reviewed and is generally published for a general audience.

Non-scholarly.

200

This useful stage of the writing process is the "skeleton" for the full document you plan to create.

Outline.

200

A type of citation that uses parentheses to document a source of information.

In-text citation.

200
This type of essay aims to convince the reader of something.

Persuasive essay.

200

Technology that uses word likelihood probabilities to generate text that imitates human language.

Generative AI/Large language model

200

This type of source is peer-reviewed by experts in the field and is published for a specialized audience.

Scholarly or academic source.

300

The collaboration between two individuals in order to improve their writing.

Peer review OR (peer) workshop

300

In this useful document that you created this semester, you included full publication details about multiple sources, and described the topic, main argument, and evidence for the argument.

Annotated bibliography

300

This statement in your essay presents your argument.

Thesis statement.

300

A question that a piece of writing aims to answer.

Research question.

300

This type of resource is a large collection of publications that can be easily searched.

Database

400

This word describes the stage of writing where you "see your work again".

Revision

400

The in-text citation format from this organization requires you to put the author's last name and page number in parentheses at the end of a sentence.

MLA style (Modern Language Association).

400

This type of essay is intended primarily to inform the reader.

Informative essay.

400

You can ask a peer to provide this in order to improve your writing.

Feedback

400

This type of source is created by someone who experienced or witnessed an event first hand.

Primary source

500

This term refers to the consideration of the writer, audience, subject, exigence (need), purpose, genre, and context of a piece of writing.

Rhetorical Situation

500

When quoting from a source, you must always provide this information if it is available.

Page number.

500

This important part of your essay restates the topic and goal of the essay, the main argument or finding, and why the issue is important.

Conclusion.

500

UW-Madison encourages this process, "by which alone the truth can be found."

Sifting and Winnowing

500

This type of reading designed to vet your sources has you evaluate the author, publisher, and content of a source in separate browser tabs at the same time.

Lateral reading.

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