Course Outcomes
Rhetorical Appeals
1010 Readings
Past Assignments
RANDOM IN CLASS STUFF
100

When I draft, revise, visit the writing center, and incorporate feedback from my teacher and peers this is an example of what course outcome?

Composing Processes

100

To inform by using logic including but not limited to: facts, statistics, and well researched theories.

Logos

100

What essay is this from?

"Colleges and universities are filled with knowledgeable, thoughtful people who have been effectively silenced by an awful writing style, a style with its flaws concealed behind a smokescreen of sophistication and professionalism. A coalition of academic writers, graduate advisers, journal editors, university press editors and trade publishers can seize this moment - and pull the wire. The buzzards can be set free - free to leave that dead tree branch, free to regain their confidence, free to soar."

Limerick, "Dancing with Professors."

100

When I identify the main idea of an article and provide an overview of the text in a neutral tone this is an example of...

Summary!

100

At our Halloween party, we watched Over the Garden Wall. What did Greg and Wirt discover about the pumpkin folk of Potsfeild??

They were all dead

200

When I adapt my writing to better fit my audience, context and purpose this is an example of ______ Course Outcome?

Rhetorical Awareness

200

To appeal to the readers emotions, often using but limited to narrative and personal experiences.

Pathos

200

What essay is this quote from:

“I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.”

Amy Tan, "Mother Tongue."

200

A statement at the end of your introduction that maps out your whole essay, is usually a claim, and every topic sentence in your essay should support...

Thesis

200

If you want extra credit and you want a chance to publish your writing, what should you do???

Submit any of your writing to the Voices 1010 Anthology!

300

When I make sure my sources are coming from a variety of reputable sources this is an example ______ Course Outcome.

Information Literacy 

300

To appeal to the author's credibility, including but not limited to note worthy achievements the author has accomplished, education, profession in the field of research, well known, etc. 

Ethos

300

"Black English is not exactly a linguistic buffalo; as children, most of the thirty-five million Afro-Americans living here depend on this language for our discovery of the world."

June Jordan "Nobody Mean More To Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan."

300

When I make my own connections with the text, whether that be linking ideas to your life, the world, or expanding on the author's purpose and why this matter/what they are doing to get their purpose across, this is all an example of...

Analysis

300

What two Disney movies did we use to demonstrate synthesis in class?

Moana and Frozen

400

When I complete synthesis by putting two or more sources in conversation together to make new information and connections this is an example of _______ Course Outcome. 

Critical Thinking

400

The specific time that prompts the creation of a piece of writing, (i.e. pamphlets created for women's rights march on Friday)

Kairos

400

"For a people who are neither Spanish nor live in a country in which Spanish is the first language; for a people who live in a country in which English is the reigning tongue but who are not Anglo; for a people who cannot entirely identify with either standard (formal, Castillian) Spanish nor standard English, what recourse is left to them but to create their own language?

Anzaldua Gloria, How to Tame a Wild Tongue 

400

When I use multiple sources of information to build new information and new connections, this is an example of...

Synthesis 

400

In class we did an activity where we drew pictures of the relationship between information and audience. What example did I draw on the board?

Buzzfeed quiz "what kind of cookie are you?"

500

When the purpose of my document is to inform, so I include logos in my writing, this is an example of ________ Course Outcome

Rhetorical Awareness

500

The urgent situation which prompts the creation of a piece of writing/makes a piece of writing come into existence (a form of context)

Exigence 

500

"Writing teachers and scholars have come up with the concept of 'discourse community' to describe a community of people who share the
same goals, the same methods of communicating, the same genres, and the same lexis (specialized language)."

Dan Meltzer "Understanding Discourse Communities."

500

Name at least 3 of Melzer's 6 features of a Discourse Community...

  1. A broadly agreed upon set of common public goals (identify your discourse community and its goals) 
  2. Mechanisms of intercommunication among members (how the discourse community communicates) 
  3. Use of these communication mechanisms to provide information and feedback (e.g., communication documents like emails, blogs, flyers, handbooks, etc.) 
  4. One or more genres that help further the goals of the discourse community (how the communication document helps meet the goals of the community) 
  5. A specific lexis (specialized language; also refer to McMillan pp. 107-118) 
  6. A threshold level of expert members (Melzer suggests a minimum number, but you should focus on what the expert members in the discourse community do, rather than the number of members)
500

What television show did I recommend ya'll watch last Tuesday in class? (Hint: it's an anime) 

Spy Family

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