Rhetorical Concepts
This appeal emphasizes an audience's emotions.
What is pathos?
This genre of writing is commonly learned in high school English classes, and it's a genre that we purposefully pushed back against in this class, this semester.
What is the five-paragraph essay?
This technology essentially functions like predictive text, where a response is pieced together based on the data that has trained it.
What is generative AI?
"Abortion murders an innocent baby" is an example of this logical fallacy.
What is the appeal to emotion?
In the Phaedrus, Plato uses his caricature of Socrates to argue that the invention of writing would harm this quality or capacity.
What is memory?
This is the appeal to credibility or authority.
What is ethos?
In lieu of a works cited page for your research paper, you employed this digital citation style.
What is hyperlinking?
In her article, Nettrice Gaskins argues that this economic system results in "the constant demand to create more commodity value in order to extract more wealth from society in order to maintain the equilibrium of the system."
What is capitalism?
In invitational rhetoric and rhetorical listening, the agency of the audience is foregrounded: this counters classical Greek's rhetorical goal, which assumed a defect in the audience that gave the rhetor the right to change their mind, also popularly known as this.
What is persuasion?
Originally, this common term referred to a person—usually a woman—whose job it was to make mathematical calculations.
What is computer?
This concept describes the distribution, movement, and change of texts and information across different platforms and through different media.
What is circulation?
After you chose your neologism, you articulated one or two of these to help guide your research process.
What is the research question?
Safiya Umoja Noble's research demonstrates how algorithms disproportionately objectify and defranchise people of color and women, stripping them of this concept, which invitational rhetoric and rhetorical listening transfer from the rhetor to the audience.
What is agency?
Sonja Foss and Cindy Griffin use equity, immanent value, and self-determination to ground this theory of rhetoric.
What is invitational rhetoric?
Per Walter Benjamin, this term refers to the unique value or worth of a work of human-generated art.
What is aura?
This classical Greek term highlights the opportune moment and the most fitting, or effective, means of delivery for a message or text.
What is kairos?
In the annotated bibliography, you included a paragraph of summary and assessment with each source's citation, and that paragraph is also known as this.
What is the annotation?
This discriminatory practice literally highlighted Black neighborhoods in red to block them from purchasing homes, which is the primary driver of generational wealth.
What is redlining?
"Liberals want to take everyone's guns" is an example of this logical fallacy.
What is a strawman?
In their article, Misha Rabinovich and Caitlin Foley explicitly state that art is political: in other words, they mean this.
What is art is "meant to be experienced with others"?
This concept emphasizes an event or situation that is so grave or urgent that it demands a response by someone.
What is exigence?
This refers to the word choice, syntax, and punctuation that you choose to guide your reader through your writing.
What is metadiscourse?
In her book, Safiya Umoja Noble examines the "algorithmically driven data failures that are specific to people of color and women," or "the structural ways that racism and sexism are fundamental to" this concept.
What is algorithmic oppression?
Krista Ratcliffe argues that, in this theory of rhetoric, both commonalities and differences between speaker and listener are honored.
What is rhetorical listening?
Walter Benjamin argued that mechanical reproduction of a work of human-generated art would decrease this quality of the work—that is, more copies of a piece of art decrease its uniqueness.
What is authenticity?