Rhetorical Practices
The practice of alternating between linguistic "codes" (languages or dialects) in conversation.
What is code switching?
In order, name the rhetorical devices that:
1. Appeal to the audience's emotions
2. Appeal to the audience's logic and reasoning
3. Promote the rhetor's credibility
What are pathos, logos, and ethos?
Where did we go to practice our field research skills on Tuesday?
What is the atrium?
Name someplace we see rhetorical devices used daily.
What is [many correct answers]?
Ms. Mitchell has this type of pet.
What is a cat?
Name two things we might think about when analyzing the rhetorical context of a text.
What are (audience, stance, purpose, genre, medium)?
This rhetorical device involves responding to a situation in a timely manner.
What is kairos?
This form of direct research involves interviews, surveys, and ethnographic research.
What is primary research?
These are systems of thought--collective assumptions, codes, and norms--that subconsciously guide our actions and the way we interpret the world.
What are cultural logics?
Ms. Mitchell is from this city.
What is Marquette, Michigan?
This model gives you a three-part guideline for reviewing your peers' work.
What is the describe/evaluate/suggest model?
This term describes the perceived separation between the rhetor and their audience.
What is rhetorical distance?
This form of research involves reviewing documents, studies, articles, and other peoples' primary research.
What is secondary research?
A narrative that helps societies/groups “make meaning" and explain how the world works.
What is mythos?
This is Ms. Mitchell's favorite place to get tea or coffee before class.
What is Seven Brew?
This term describes concisely restating someone else's ideas/writing in our own words.
What is paraphrasing?
Through this rhetorical tactic, a speaker or writer establishes common ground with an audience to create a bond and help persuade.
What is identification?
Name one thing you should always do before an interview.
What is (introduce yourself/explain the project/ask for consent to record)?
A reporter may use this writing method, which involves highlighting, comparing, contrasting, and analyzing key ideas from multiple sources to create a new, comprehensive understanding of a complex issue.
What is synthesizing?
What is Monday/Wednesday 10-11:30 and Friday by appointment?
Name the three steps in the ICE method of incorporating quotes into your work.
What are introduce, cite, and evaluate?
This term describes an argument with a hidden or unstated premise.
Enthymeme.
Name the 6 one-word "reporter's questions" that can help you observe and include detail as you do your research.
What are: who, what, where, why, and how?
This term describes a landscape of many complex, interconnected, and ever-changing rhetorical situations.
What is a rhetorical ecology?
Ms. Mitchell is getting this degree.
What is a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing?