Inquiring Minds
Reading as a Writer
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Stable Table
100
the patterns of thought that lead you to question assumptions and opinions, explore alternative opinions, anticipate opposing arguments, compare one type of experience with another, and identify the causes and consequences of ideas and events.
What are habits of mind or critical thinking?
100
When you do this kind of reading, you look for the writer's claims, for the writer's key ideas and terms, and for connections with key ideas and terms in other texts.
What is strategic reading?
100
A main claim, or __________, summarizes the writer's position on a situation and answers the question(s) the writer addresses.
What is thesis?
100
When we observe two conflicting points of view, we have identified one of these.
What is an issue?
100
This makes an assertion that is clearly defined, focused, and supported.
What is a thesis?
200
This is what you have to learn so you can participate in the different disciplinary conversations that take place in your courses.
What academic writing?
200
This is the means of persuasion available to writers.
What is rhetoric?
200
This requires you to identify the writer's assertions, audience, motivations, and purpose.
What is rhetorical analysis?
200
These help you formulate your working thesis.
What is the questions you ask.
200
When paraphrasing, it's not enough to change the words used in the original text; you must also do this.
What is change the sentence structure?
300
This requires the you to define a situation that calls for a response, demonstrate the timeliness of your argument, and support your argument with valid/logical reasons.
What is an academic essay or paper?
300
The ability to understand the perspectives that shape what people think, believe, and value.
What is empathy?
300
Anticipating reader's objections and being willing to make these are important parts of developing a conversational argument.
What is concessions?
300
Ascendancy or domination of one power (within a political state or social class) over others.
What is hegemony?
300
Use this when the passage is so effective--so clear, so concise, so authoritative, so memorable--that you would be hard-pressed to improve on it.
What is a quotation?
400
Academic writers must learn to make inquiries, which typically begin with these.
What are observations?
400
An unwillingness to settle for obvious answers in the quest to understand why things are the way they are and how they might be different.
What is skepticism?
400
The judgment arrived at by most of those concerned.
What is consensus?
400
To relegate to the fringes or make seem unimportant.
What is to marginalize?
400
This is the unacknowledged use of another's work.
What is plagiarism?
500
This type of thinking imagines there are only two sides to an issue.
What is binary thinking?
500
Having many sides, aspects, or phases.
What is multifaceted?
500
To show or illustrate by example?
What is exemplify?
500
To produce, cause, or give rise to.
What is engender?
500
A discussion that forges connections between the arguments of two or more authors, creating a context for your own argument that claims your place in the academic conversation.
What is a synthesis?
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