James Baldwin
Baldwin moved to this country when he was 24
What is France?
This describes why one is writing about a certain subject
What is purpose?
When writers share their work with one or more classmates (their peers) to receive feedback before turning the work in or revising it
What is peer review?
This genre of writing lets you be the main character
What is personal narrative?
This page has all your sources
What is a Works Cited page?
Baldwin won a debate in 1965 against this influential figure from the conservative movement
Who is William F. Buckley?
What is stance?
A type of draft for an essay that include roman numerals and letters, which helps organize the paper
What is outlining?
Open letters often rely on this persuasive sentiment to move readers
What is emotional appeal?
This is the central argument or claim of a paper
What is a thesis statement?
Baldwin was a major figure in this movement
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This group’s needs, expectations, and values determine how a writer shapes their message
What is audience?
This is an informal prewriting method of exploring a subject by writing about it
What is freewriting?
These are sounds that occur in the background of an audio essay
What are ambient sounds?
This should be in the right-hand corner of all the pages of an MLA academic paper
What is your last name and page number?
Baldwin often wrote about these two themes
What is sexuality and race?
This describes the category for classifying texts based on form or style
What is genre?
This source often serves as a place for preliminary research, but is not recommended as a source for a paper
What is Wikipedia?
This genre asks writers to make an argument about a text using evidence from the text itself.
What is literary analysis?
You use these to change or add words in a quotation, usually to make it grammatically fit within your sentence
What are brackets?
What is If Beale Street Could Talk?
This element refers to the form a message travels through. Examples: print, video, or podcasts
What is medium?
Lower Order Concerns usually pertains to this:
What is:
(Possible answers)
Spelling
Grammar
Formatting
Quick fixes in a paper
These are the three types of audiences for an argumentative paper
What are naive, open but semi-informed, and hostile but informed?
The three "..." that are used in a quote to omit unnecessary parts
What are ellipses?