MLA
Writing Processes
The Rhetorical Situation
Genres
Doing Research
100
True or False: Titles should not be bolded in this format.
True
100
A means for developing ideas about a topic or writing task.
What is pre-writing?
100
Whom you are writing to.
What is audience?
100
This type of writing requires the use of sensory details--details that appeal to the reader's senses of touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound.
What is a Narrative?
100
Historical documents, diaries, eyewitness accounts, and letters
What are primary sources?
200
True or False: Headings should be double-spaced in this format
True
200
The writer should consider the organization of the essay and clarity of ideas (higher order concerns) during this part of the process.
What is revision?
200
When you write to entertain, persuade, educate or evaluate.
What is purpose in writing?
200
These types of writing asks that you reflect on experiences.
What are the Narrative and the Profile?
200
Scholarly books, biographies, textbooks, web articles, and scholarly articles
What are secondary sources?
300
True or False: You should include the title of the essay and the page number at the top of every page in this format.
False, you should include your last name and page number at the top of each page in this format.
300
The writer should focus on the details of paragraphs, sentences, words, and punctuation (lower-order concercns) during this part of the process.
What is editing?
300
The author's attitude about a specific topic.
What is stance?
300
A possible purpose of this type of writing is to entertain; the first audience to consider in this type of writing is yourself.
What is a Narrative?
300
Restating information from a source in your own words using your own sentence structures.
What is paraphrasing?
400
True or False: When incorporating quotes, you do not need to make sure that the verbs within the quote agree with my own writing.
False, when incorporating quotes by an author whose verbs don't agree with the rest of your writing, you should change the verb-tense, and use brackets [] to indicate a change in the quote.
400
This can often help pont out problems/issues in writing that the writer may not have noticed.
What is peer-response?
400
Types of writing that are determined by the audience and purpose of the piece.
What are genres?
400
Ethos, pathos and logos.
What are the elements of rhetoric used in writing?
400
A record of all the sources your review when beginning a research project.
What is a bibliography?
500
Tomorrow, from 1 pm to 3 pm.
When is the midterm exam?
500
These are meant to help you explore what you think--and why.
What are questions of inquiry?
500
When determining this, you may consider people's demographic.
What is audience?
500
These are used to create emotion, appeal to logic, and establish the writer's credibility in writing.
What are the elements of rhetoric?
500
Modern Language Association (MLA)
What is a type of documentation style?
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