Rhetorical Analysis
The three rhetorical tools
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
Preparing, organizing and developing ideas before writing a paper, report or another piece. Organizing your thoughts is a vital step when writing a paper because it allows you to present your material in a way that's engaging and concise.
What is prewriting?
Name one feature of an MLA-formatted student paper.
So many choices!
The point of view that should be used in academic writing.
Third Person Point of View
What is the roller skating horror story?
What is one of the instructor's most embarrassing moments?
An ancient Greek word meaning “character,” is a rhetorical or written technique that appeals to an audience or reader's ethics. Authors achieve this in their writing by demonstrating that they are a trustworthy source of accurate information.
What is Ethos?
The practice of writing down all your thoughts without stopping, and without regard for spelling, grammar, or any of the usual rules for writing. It might include a topic as a general guide, or it might not.
Freewriting
Does MLA format require a title page?
No, a paper heading.
What is a contraction? Is it acceptable in academic writing?
A way to mash together two words in order to make them shorter. They also are a way to make your writing seem more conversational and have the reader feel included in the writing. Because of this, they are generally inappropriate for academic writing.
The appeal to emotion, means to persuade an audience by purposely evoking certain emotions to make them feel the way the author wants them to feel. Authors make deliberate word choices, use meaningful language, and use examples and stories that evoke emotion.
What is Pathos?
A freewriting technique that allows you to focus your ideas continually while trying to discover a writing topic. After you freewrite for the first time, identify a key thought or idea in your writing, and begin to freewrite again, with that idea as your starting point.
Looping
Does MLA format include a References page?
No, a Works Cited page.
What is never a good way to start your conclusion?
"In conclusion ..."
Reason or the rational principle expressed in words and things, argument, or justification; especially personified as the source of order in the universe.
What is Logos?
A strategy that allows you to explore the relationships between ideas. Put the subject in the center of a page. Circle or underline it. As you think of other ideas, write them on the page surrounding the central idea.
What is Clustering
Sets off the first line of a paragraph by positioning it at the margin, and then indenting each subsequent line of the paragraph.
What is a Hanging Indent?
What source is never acceptable for academic papers?
What is "Wikipedia?"
Who defined "Rhetoric" as "a faculty of finding the available means of persuasion" and identified the three rhetorical tools?
Who is Aristotle?
Freewriting can also be called by this other name, because it is indicative of the process.
What is Stream of Consciousness writing?
Name the order of the information in a paper heading.
Student's Name
Instructor's Name
Class Name
Date (Spelled out)
Times New Roman, 12 pt. or Courier New, 12 pt.
What is the standard font for Academic Writing?