Assignments
Posing a question the class to generate discussion about a topic, method, or idea
What is thejogging question?
The name of the bibliography list of sources at the end of a MLA paper.
What is a Works Cited?
The three types/categories of paragraphs in a typical essay
What are introductions, conclusions, and body paragraphs?
What is law of subordinance/cohesion?
The narrative perspective which uses you/your pronouns when speaking
What is 2nd person perspective?
Writing that puts an author's ideas and writing into my own words to show my grasp of their main idea or point.
What is "Summary?"
The format/necessary information for an in-text citation for MLA format.
(Author Page Number)
The act of looking back after you've finished writing a paper to check for grammar, spelling, logical flow, etc
What is revision/editing?
Ensuring the beginning of each sentence within a paragraph all relate back to one main topic/idea
What are topic strings/coherence?
The three rhetorical appeals
What are logos, ethos, and pathos?
A genre of writing that engages with another author's ideas, arguments or examples by connecting them to my own ideas, reflections, evidence, experience, or knowledge.
What is personal response writing or critical analysis?
The first time I mention a source in MLA style I usually need to do what in my own sentence structure?
Introduce the author/context through a signal phrase
A method of organizing a paper to clearly define and organize your topic and subtopics in your paper, so that you bring the reader on a logical journey from your thesis, through your supporting evidence, to your conclusion
What is Outlining?
Main actor and subject are not the same; an action is happening to the subject, the subject is not doing the action
What is passive voice?
The four purposes/priorities of reading
What is subjective, thetic, thematic, and reflexive?
A way of developing, coming up with, or exploring a topic for an essay before actually writing the essay
What is a proposal?
If I have summarized the source in my own language, what do I still need to do to properly cite my source in MLA papers?
I need to make sure that I have introduced the author and title previously, cite the page numbers using in-text citation, and create a Works Cited page.
In what order are these aspects of paragraph structure written? a) Introduction b) Signal phrase c) Quotation/Paraphrase d) Response/Explanation e) Conclusion/Transition
1: c, 2: b, 3: d, 4: a, 5: e
Nouns derived from verbs and adjectives; words often end in -tion, -ment, -ence, -y, etc
What is nominalization
The ability to find information online, read it, and evaluate it for legitimacy, accuracy, identifying differences between texts and their sources, etc.
What is digital literacy?