Vocabulary
A type or category of something
What is genre?
Missing either a subject, predicate, or both
What is a fragment?
Appears in the top left corner of every page.
What is the title of your paper in all capitals?
A piece of writing that describes the main ideas of another piece of writing
What is a summary?
The most likely place for a thesis statement to appear in a paragraph
What is the last sentence?
The main idea of a paper
What is a thesis?
Two or more independent clauses that are joined together without any punctuation
What is a run on sentence?
The three things that are required as part of the cover page.
What is your paper's title, your name, and the university name?
Describing what someone else said, using your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
The type of transition that would appear between two opposing ideas
What is a transition of contrast?
The use of hard data, facts, stats, or expert opinions in an argument.
What is logos?
Two independent clauses that are joined together with a comma
What is a comma splice?
The order your citations appear in on the References page.
What is alphabetical?
The act of reading your writing and looking for errors in content, organization, grammar, spelling, etc
What is proofreading?
A paragraph whose function is to get the audience's attention
What is a grabber or hook?
A deliberate attempt to elicit an emotional response from the audience.
What is pathos?
The two types of ending punctuation that always go inside quotation marks
What are periods and commas?
The first piece of information that appears in a full citation.
What is the author's last name or the first prominent word of the title (if there is no author)?
The way an author indirectly persuades an audience through word choice, omission of facts, or paragraph structure
What is angle of vision?
Has the different spelling, same pronunciation, and different meaning
What is a homophone?
The credibility of the author.
What is ethos?
The type of punctuation that always appears between an attributive tag and dialogue or quotation
What is a comma?
The information that appears in an in-text citation
What is the author's last name (or first prominent word of a title, if there is no author), the date, and a page or paragraph number?
The five things that make up the rhetorical situation
What is topic, angle, context, purpose, and readers?
Put around a quotation within a quotation
What are single quotation marks?