They Say/I Say
What is "They Say"?
In this essay, Ben Adler responds to the trend to ban single-use plastic bags
What is "Banning Plastic Bags is Great for the World Right? Not So Fast"?
A one or two-sentence condensation of the argument or analysis in a written paper
What is a thesis statement?
The amount of points the student-led discussion is worth
What is 15 points?
The instructor's first and last name
Who is Shakirah Peterson?
According to Chapter 4, what are the three major ways to respond to an argument?
What is agree, disagree, and agree but with a difference? (Alternative answer: "What is Yes, No and OK, But?"
Kenneth Goldsmith opens "Go Ahead: Waste Time on the Internet" by asking whether the internet is a waste of time and he wastes no time arguing that it _____.
What is "is not a waste of time"?
_____ is a means of convincing an audience using the authority or credibility of the persuader.
What is Ethos?
The days and times students can visit for office hours
When is Mondays 11am-12:30pm and Wednesdays 2:30pm - 4:00pm?
The instructors office building and room number
Where is Allen Hall, Room 228A?
"No single device more quickly improves a piece of writing than planting a ______ in your text."
What is a naysayer?
What are the three factors Sylvia Mathews Burwell cites as the reason today's college students are more stressed out today than in previous generations?
What are safety, economics, and technology?
____ are kinds of writing: reports, position papers, poems, letters, etc.
What are genres?
What is "They Say/I Say with Readings", 5th Edition
The instructor's alma mater
Where is LSU?
This chapter focuses on various moves to answer two questions in your own writing. The two questions get at the same thing: the relevance or importance of what you're saying.
What is "So What?" and "Who Cares?"
In "Why America is Self-Segregating", danah boyd argues that we need _______________.
What is "a diverse and highly connected social fabric"?
Whenever you write, you have a certain ____, an attitude toward your topic.
What is a stance?
The attendance policy
What is 3 absences without consequences and 2 points off the final grade for every absence after the first 3?
The instructor's hometown
Chapter 9 discussed blending these two types of writing styles
Our next and last assigned reading
What is Nicholas Carr's "How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds"?
Whatever the topic, all writers have these five components that make up their rhetorical context.
What is a purpose, audience, genre, medium, and design?
The name of each essay and the number of points they are worth
What is Analysis Essay (worth 20 points), Opinion Essay (worthy 25 points) and Researched Argument Essay (worth 30 points)?
The photograph pinned on the instructor's office door
What is a photograph of a swan?