Rhetoric & Rhetorical Situations
The people who you intend to read your text.
Who is the intended audience?
At this stage in the writing process, you are resolving surface-level errors in the draft.
What is proofreading?
What is the heading?
Learning how to read and write
What is literacy?
The research process always begins with this.
What is a question?
The appeal to logic
What is logos?
This stage in the writing process focuses on making large, structure-level changes to the draft.
What is revision?
This is located at the end of a sentence when you bring in information from an external source.
What is an in-text citation?
The ability to read, write, and play music
What is musical literacy?
This type of source is a first-hand account of a topic, and includes interviews, data, and letters.
What is a primary source?
The appeal to credibility to persuade your readers.
What is ethos?
This is a visual approach to idea-generation, and it puts the emphasis on identifying categories and the relationships between different items within those categories.
What is mind mapping?
This is the organization method for the order of your sources on a works cited page.
What is alphabetical?
The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information needed to make appropriate health decisions.
What is health literacy?
This is a collection of digital resources available to you through the library, which would otherwise be located behind a paywall.
What is a database?
The appeal to emotion.
What is pathos?
This type of peer-review feedback focuses on content, organization, and the rhetorical situation of the paper.
What is higher-order concern?
This information should be included in the parenthetical citation if there is *no author* for the source.
What is a short version of the title?
The ability to identify that you need information, find that information, and evaluate its usefulness.
What is informational literacy?
What is a working thesis?
The art of using language effectively to persuade or influence others, especially the exploitation of figures of speech & other compositional techniques to this end.
What is rhetoric?
This type of peer-review feedback focuses on content, organization, and the rhetorical situation of the paper.
What is higher-order concern?
In addition to the author, title of the article, and the journal name, a journal article citation also includes this identifying information.
What is the volume and issue number?
This refers to the ability to understand the nuances that come along with living or working in a particular society.
What is cultural literacy?
This is the name of a collection of search terms including AND, OR, and NOT.
What is a boolean search term?