Unit 1
Quality of being determined or of holding fast
What is Tenacity?
To strive to imitate or approach equality with
What is emulate?
State of currently occupying an office
What is incumbency?
Frankness or honesty
What is candor?
Protection against loss or damage
What is an indemnity?
Type of evidence that includes information not connected to an idea or point
What is irrelevant evidence?
key components: the message, the writer/speaker (author), and the audience
What is a rhetorical triangle?
Sentences, paragraphs, chapters, and sections, can help a reader to comprehend a text’s main idea or claim.
What are structural elements?
Invites you to add a touch of your own perspective to these celebrated documents.
What are analyzing themes?
The explicitly relevant ideas that an author uses to support their claim
What are reasons?
Type of tone used in informative texts to present facts
What is neutral?
When you write continuously about whatever comes to mind regarding possible topics for your paper.
What is freewriting?
When you "hook" the reader to spark interest in the topic and to create connections
What is an Introduction?
A type of writing that emphasizes logic, specifically claims, reasons, evidence and, counterclaims
What is an argument?
Addressing at least one counterclaim then provide a rebuttal within at least one of your body paragraphs, or as a separate paragraph following the related claim
What is drafting the introduction and body?
The author states an opinion or judgment and offers support for it
What is statement-support?
The way words, phrases, and sentences are arranged to show an author’s meaning, purpose, and style.
What is a syntax?
Called the emotional appeal and persuades through emotional connection
What is the Appeal to pathos?
A reference to a person, object, event, or literary work that is widely recognized
What is an allusion?
A foundational document that provides readers with information with a kind of historical impact or significance regarding the formation and development of the United States
What is a seminal United States text?
Type of writing that should be brief and to the point.
What is a summary?
When reading a source, rewrite the main relevant points for your essay in your own words
What is paraphrasing?
Improving clarity and focus, the strength of evidence and thesis statement, and ideas and organization, as well as style.
What is the process of revision?
They are claims that run in the opposite direction to your stated position on the issue.
What are counterclaims?
Add evidence or explanations to clarify a “because” statement or a counterclaim or rebuttal.
What is reviving the body?