Throwback to WP1
True or False: Writing only refers to essays written in school.
False!
People making memes critiquing colonialism after the Queen's death.
What is Kairos?
A main idea, often called a “claim” or “thesis statement,” backed up with evidence that supports the idea.
What is an Argument?
Assumptions made about groups of people by outside parties - often based on depictions in media.
What are stereotypes?
The year that NIU first opened.
What is 1895?
True or False: Literacy only refers to the ability to read and write.
False!
Literacy is simply competence or knowledge in a specified area.
An ASPCA commercial that shows pictures of injured animals while Sarah McLachlan plays in the background.
What is Pathos?
True or False: You'll learn new writing rules each time you learn to write in a new context.
True!
Writing varies a lot depending on context.
A children's toy aisle that is filled with mostly pink toys, doll, and pretend cleaning supplies.
What is the girl's aisle?
The president of NIU.
Who is Dr. Lisa C. Freeman?
A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is genre?
Ads for school supplies airing in July.
What is Kairos?
The intertwining of different aspects of social identities, including gender, race, culture, ethnicity, social class, religion, and sexual orientation, that results in unique experiences and opportunities.
What is intersectionality?
Horror, Rom-Com, Action, and Comedy
What are movie genres?
The oldest building on NIU campus.
What is Altgeld Hall?
The name of a group of people who share a common dialect, terminology, or way of speaking.
What is a discourse community?
One glass of Florida orange juice contains 75% of your daily Vitamin C needs.
What is Logos?
An invention technique that focuses on rapidly producing words, phrases, sentences, and even paragraphs to bypass writing-inhibiting anxieties about word choice, grammar, spelling, or how a peer reviewer or editor might respond.
What is freewriting?
The imagined group of people that you consider to make your rhetorical choices.
The number of countries where Huskies can study abroad.
What is 75?
Dua Lipa and PNAU mashing up snippets of Elton John's classic songs "Rocket Man," "Sacrifice," "Kiss the Bride," and "Where is Shoorah" to create Dua Lipa's "Cold Heart" is an example of this overarching concept from WP1.
What is remediation?
Ultrarunner Timothy Olson talks about how good adidas running shoes are while clips of him running in the shoes play on the screen.
What is Ethos?
A form of interactive communication that is both digital in format and distribution such as: gaming, web sites, chat rooms, e-mail, virtual reality, streaming video or audio, blogs, real simple syndication (RSS), short message service (SMS), Twitter, wikis, online communities (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn), and YouTube to name a few.
What is New Literacies?
Original documents, photographs and interviews used to prove your argument.
What are primary sources?
White and Yellow
What were the original school colors?