Reading Strategies
Inductive Writing
Deductive Writing
Editing and Style
Rhetorical Moves and Strategies
100
Paraphrasing an author's ideas into your own words in order to better understand a text.
What is Coming to Terms
100
When a writer first researches and listens to the ongoing discourse about a specific topic or question and then, in their own writing, adds to that discourse with their own ideas.
What is a Joining the Conversation
100
An assertion a writer makes about evidence, not an opinion, but an idea the evidence supports and substantiates.
What is a Claim
100
When an author creates cohesion by combining the ideas already introduced with the next idea he/she discusses.
What is the Known + New Formula
100
A strategy for incorporating the ideas of others into your writing and inquiry. This strategy uses four parts: a lead in, a quote or idea, coming to terms with that quote, and a lead out that connects the ideas of an author to your own and shows how you will use those ideas.
What is a Citation Package
200
When a reader comes to terms with a text by analyzing: what the author is trying to achieve; where the writer goes for examples and evidence; and the writing strategies the author employs to communicate their ideas.
What is Aims, Methods and Materials
200
A question that arises out of thoughtful engagement with a subject, that the writer doesn't know the answer to, that isn't answered by a simple yes or no, and that is likely to be answered with further exploration, thinking, and conversation.
What is a Critical Inquiry Question
200
A clear statement that explains why a piece of evidence justifies an author's claim.
What is a Warrant
200
A cohesion strategy that tells the reader exactly what you're about to do.
What is Sign-Posting
200
When you show another side or the limits and limitations of an author's idea. With this strategy, you highlight what the author ignores, misses, or hides.
What is Countering
300
What a reader locates when he/she wants to trace the structure author's thinking throughout the essay.
What is Idea Path
300
A new idea that is clearly proven by an authors exploration of evidence, countering ideas, and nuanced examination. Often appears at the end of a paper.
What is an Earned Insight
300
A topic and a major arguable claim that represents an informed perspective; is in response to a tension, problem, or question; requires evidence, analysis, and reasoning to support it; offers an idea of significance (isn't immediately obvious).
What is a Thesis
300
A cohesion strategy that repeats a word or phrase, shooing forward progression in your ideas.
What is Lexical Cohesion
300
With this writing strategy you take an author's idea and show how it might be interpreted in another context or how it changes when you add to that idea.
What is Extending
400
When a reader comes to terms with a text by noticing the moments where the author writes in specific details and also where the author moves to general ideas, paying specific attention to how those moments work together.
What is the Mountain and Sea
400
A strategy for finding evidence for a paper or idea and strengthening the author's ethos, by examining scholarly voices, the author's own personal experience, the author's cultural membership to specific groups, and the ways in which the topic is discussed and written about.
What is the Authoritative I
400
A way of beginning a paper that shows the reader how the author is joining the conversation. Typically, the author begins with the conversation he/she is joining, a countering or extending move to show where the author is going, the problem he/she sees that still needs to be examined, and then ending with a working thesis or tentative explanation to the problem.
What is a They Say/I Say Introduction
400
Cohesion that shows a relationship between clauses or sentences, using words such as "furthermore", "however", and "thus".
What is Relational Cohesion
400
With this writing strategy you show how an author's ideas support your own, showing how an expert comes to the same conclusions as you.
What is Authorizing
500
When a reader comes to terms with a text by identifying the historical and cultural time of the text, the problem the author addresses, and the author's solution to that problem.
What is the Complaint, Pitch, and Moment
500
A piece of evidence that an author explores in depth and with specificity, throughout their entire essay in order to gain specific insights about a greater question, topic, or idea.
What is a Representative Example
500
The clear trajectory of an author's thinking throughout a text, tracking the ways in which a thesis or question changes, evolves, and matures as the writer progresses in his/her thinking.
What is an Idea Path
500
A cohesion strategy that renames a word or phrase, in order to show complexity and uncovers how your ideas are evolving. "Playing basketball and baseball" may become "Engaging in youth sports".
What is Semantic Cohesion
500
When you examine an author's idea within the same context in which they discussed that idea, illuminating or partially explaining a subject your are writing about.
What is Borrowing
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