Readings
Rhetorical Analysis
Syllabus
Texts in Action
Wild Card
100

In her essay "Ghosts," Vauhini Vara uses an AI chatbot to write about the loss of this person.

Her sister

100

A rhetorical analysis concerns:

A) What the argument is.

B) The content of the text.

C) How an argument is made.

C

100

This is my email address

woodcobe@ucmail.uc.edu

100

This sentence introduces an essay's argument, clearly stating the writer's stance on a topic.

Thesis statement

100

Spring break begins on this date

March 17

200

This website hosts the Student Guide to English Composition, our course textbook.

tophat

200

This is what we call the intended reader or recipient of a given text.

Audience

200

Due dates for assignments always fall on this day of the week.

Sunday

200

The Texts in Action essay asked you to move beyond summary of your article and into this.

Analysis

200

The Eagles beat the Chiefs in the Super Bowl with this score.

40

300

In a reading from our first week, author Lorrie Moore offers us a how-to guide on becoming this.

A writer. "How to Become a Writer"

300

This is the definition of "exigence."

The situation, event, or problem that the writer is responding to; the "urgency" behind a piece of writing.

300

If you're unable to get an assignment in on the due date, you can do this.

Send me an email requesting an extension!

300

This method is used to cite evidence from the article under discussion in your paper.

Quotation

300

Feedback on written assignments often takes the form of comments pinned to the margins of your document. What color are the pins?

Blue

400

Vauhini Vara's piece "Ghosts" appeared in this publication.

The Believer

400

"Creative Nonfiction" could be used to describe this rhetorical feature of Vauhini Vara's "Ghosts."

Genre

400

You can do this to make up for one unexcused absence.

Visit the campus Writing Center

400

The Texts in Action essay asked you to apply a minimum of this many rhetorical terms to the analysis of your article.

3

400

I also teach a course at UC on this topic.

Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy

500

In his essay "What if We're All Self-Playing Harps," Oscar Schwartz borrows a metaphor from this literary and artistic movement to describe human creativity.

Romanticism

500

The art of effective or persuasive communication is called this.

Rhetoric

500

Each additional unexcused absence after your 3rd affects your overall grade by this percentage.

3%

500

The Texts in Action assignment is worth this percentage of your overall grade.

20%

500

UC has approximately this many undergraduate students.

40k

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