Unit 1
A verb that means, "to persuade into erroneous thinking; mislead".
What is the definition of delude?
A verb that means, "to strive to imitate or approach equality with".
What is the definition of emulate?
A noun that means, "abundance of wealth".
What is the definition of affluence?
A noun that means, "frankness or honesty".
What is the definition of candor?
A noun that means, "an incorrect term used to describe or designate something".
What is the definition of misnomer?
A meaning that is not directly stated and requires the reader to make an inference.
What is an implicit meaning?
The shades of meaning that differentiate words with similar denotations.
What is a nuance?
The author’s attempt to persuade an audience by presenting arguments that are most appropriate in a particular situation and come at the right time.
What is an appeal to kairos?
A rhetorical device in which authors say less than what they mean, so that their words contrast with reality.
What is understatement?
In legal reasoning, the question of whether an actual rule, or law, was violated.
What is the issue?
The writing style used in academic journal articles or studies, instruction manuals, textbooks, and biographies.
What is formal informational?
Collections of research studies and articles that have been published by scientists at universities and other research institutions.
What are online scholarly databases?
A process that focuses on the substance of your paper, with the aim of improving clarity and focus, strength of evidence and thesis statement, and ideas and organization, as well as style.
What is revision?
The writer’s belief or value that creates an implied connection between their claim and their "because" statements.
What is a warrant?
The "food for thought" a writer provides the audience at the end of an argumentative essay.
What is closure?
Using key details to support or help explain a central idea when determining the central ideas in a text.
What is citing textual evidence?
Using different sentence structures strategically to engage readers and convey meaning appropriately.
What is varying syntax?
Determining if a source is accurate, relevant, and credible.
What is evaluating sources?
Describing a situation or subject vividly using one or more of the five senses to engage the reader's imagination.
What is imagery?
Looking for indicator words in an argumentative text for the idea or assumption that is accepted as true and used as the basis of an argument from which a conclusion is drawn.
What is identifying the premise?
Using specialized vocabulary from a given subject or field in your writing.
What is domain-specific vocabulary and jargon?
Creating a visual representation of your ideas and the connections between them.
What is idea mapping?
Writing in an objective and professional manner for an audience in an educational setting.
What is an academic tone?
An organizational structure in which the writer identifies one or more problems and then argues for a particular solution.
What is problem-and-solution?
What is creating cohesiveness?