Synthesis Essay
The number of sources required to use in your essay.
What is the number three?
In a rhetorical analysis, it is what is being analyzed.
What is the author's rhetorical choices or strategies?
The acronym CHORES is useful for fleshing out these three things.
What are Life, Lens, Literature?
The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of a sentence.
What is Anaphora?
A good strategy to figure out an answer before using process of elimination.
What is cover up all choices and answer the question in your own words?
This is the number of points you will be deducted for not citing a source within your Sythesis Essay.
What is the number one?
This is an example of an author's "Biggie" strategy.
What is any of the patterns of development? Also acceptable: What is how the author structures the text?
This is the big difference between Argument and Synthesis essays.
What is Synthesis provides sources that you must use and Argument makes you come up with sources from your own brain?
The use of facts and data would appeal to this.
What is the audience's Logos?
This is the question you should ask when faced with two "viable" choices.
What is POE: What is wrong with you?
This is the minimum number of sources you should use per paragraph in a Synthesis Essay.
What is the number Two?
In a Rhetorical Analysis essay, it is advisable to find this many strategies to analyze.
What is three? (One biggie and two smallies)
I may lose credibility when writing the Argument Essay if I do not use or cannot remember these.
This is NOT a strategy; it is an appeal.
When you don't know the definition of a word you should try this.
What is look for roots or plug all of the ones you do know in?
A good way to earn the Sophistication Point in a Synthesis Essay.
What is include the opposing viewpoint using a countering source and refute it with information from a source that supports your own claim?
These are common "smallie" strategies that an author uses for comparison.
What are simile, metaphor, or analogy?
This is why context is so important in an Argument Essay.
What is the audience may not know much about your example, especially your "Life" example?
Creating a picture in the minds of the audience.
What is Imagery?
This is the number of minutes you have per question on the MCQ test (including reading time).
What is 1.33?
After evaluating or interpreting each source you can properly sort them and are able to show the relationship and agreement (or disagreement) between the sources and your thesis, thereby giving each body paragraph more substance.
Why is looking for logical subtopics so important?
These six elements of the Rhetorical Situation are excellent for building your introduction and explaining HOW the author's chosen strategies operate together.
What are exigence, purpose, message, author, audience, and message?
One way to earn the Sophistication Point on an Argument Essay.
What is try out a rhetorical strategy of your own to compose your essay?
Placing things side by side for the purposes of comparison. Authors often use this device with opposing examples in order to highlight ideas or make a point.
What is Juxtaposition?
Look for verbs.
How can I determine more meaning from the passage's paragraphs when the text is very complex?