Deductive Writing
Working with Sources
Writing Concepts and Moves
Critical Inquiry
Grab Bag
100
This is based on taste, preference, or socialization rather than based on evidence and analysis.
What is an opinion?
100
This is an attempt to accept the claims or overall project of an essay (often a good strategy for a first reading).
What is reading with the grain?
100
This the attempt to understand what a text is saying as well as how it says it.
What is coming to terms?
100
Two of its features are arguability and that it is substantiated by evidence and analysis.
What is a strong thesis?
100
This is a story which may precede a "they say/I say" introduction.
What is an anecdote?
200
This provides the a "link" between claims and evidence.
What is a warrant?
200
This reaffirms readers in positions or beliefs they already hold before reading a text.
What is reading as ratification?
200
This is using ideas or key words and concepts from a text to think through another issue.
What is borrowing?
200
A question which requires further thinking and analysis.
What is a critical inquiry question?
200
This is a strategy for working on development of initial ideas.
What is exploding paragraphs?
300
This is the move to generate a theory or more general abstract conclusion based on specific details, evidence, or examples.
What is a "mountain" move?
300
This is the project of understanding the overall project of an essay or other text.
What is coming to terms?
300
This is a cohesion strategy which utilizes purposeful repetition of key words and concepts.
What is lexical cohesion?
300
This is the principal that informs how we try to construct cohesion in an essay.
What is the known+new contract?
300
This is the construction of ethos based on scholarly, personal, social/cultural, and genre knowledges.
What is the Authoritative I?
400
This is an introduction which sets up a "conversation" created by other authors on the same issue, and then adds a tentative claim from the writer.
What is a "they say/I say" introduction?
400
This is a strategy that is used to substantiate a claim based on the credibility of another critic.
What is authorizing?
400
This metaphor represents specific detail, observations, examples and evidence.
What is the "sea of details?"
400
This is an example that helps to demonstrate a claim by allowing the writer to develop a sustained analysis.
What is a representative example?
400
This is the perceived character of the writer of a text.
What is ethos?
500
This is part 4 of the citation package.
What is the lead-out and "so what?" of the citation package?
500
These are the two ways of countering a text.
What is pointing out the other side or ideological criticism?
500
This short hand question asks you to think about the significance of your questions or claims.
What is the "so what?"
500
A style or genre of essay that is "driven" by the development and evolution of a critical inquiry question.
What is an inductive essay?
500
This is our intended audience.
What is the public intellectual or wider academic community?
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