Unit 1
What "a" word means extremely difficult to achieve?
What is arduous?
The definition of the word dearth.
What is a limitation or restriction?
1400s; Late Latin paradigma, from Greek paradeigma, meaning “pattern, model, example,” from paradeiknynai, meaning “to show side by side, compare, exhibit,” from para-, meaning “beside, alongside of,” + deiknynai, meaning “to show”
What is paradigm?
A verb related to the noun position.
What is posit?
An "a" word meaning greedy for material gain.
What is avaricious?
The information that authors provide as support or proof for their opinions, claims, central ideas, or points
What is evidence?
Defined as sentence structure.
What is syntax?
An organizational text structure that answers: why did, does, or will that event or situation happen; and what did, does, or will result from that event or situation?
What is cause-and-effect?
A rhetorical device used to reference to a different text, an event, or a religious aspect, in order to enhance a description, explanation, or point the author is making.
What is an allusion?
The primary statement that is to be proved through the presentation of an argument.
What is a claim?
Identifying the task, audience, and purpose of the text is the first step to writing this document.
What is an objective summary?
Type of source needed to include within an essay and on works cited page.
What is credible?
A resource that provides definitions and related information about words.
What is a dictionary?
Developed from the argument’s claim—its central point, or the point that the writer wants the audience to accept as true or important.
What is a thesis statement?
Two types of reasoning (found in the reading review).
What are inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning?
“Free to play is king right now, and I hope it goes away,” says Eli Hodapp, editor in chief of the iOS gaming site TouchArcade. A type of evidence.
An example of rhetoric: “cold” environment is one that is unfeeling and unkind, one that fails to nurture or provide support. It brings to mind loneliness and sadness.
What is imagery?
An example of an organizational structure: Just two months before international climate talks begin in Paris, a new report from energy and environmental groups predicts greenhouse gases can plunge 77 percent in 2050 by electrifying more than half the nation’s cars, trucks and forklifts.
What is cause-and-effect?
What rhetoric device was used in this quote from Elizabeth Cady Stanton's speech “Address on Woman’s Rights," "And strange as it may seem to many we then and there declared our right to vote according to the Declaration of the government under which we live. This right no one pretends to deny." (Primavera)
What is allusion?
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so-called), and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that the theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.
What is a claim?
Includes facts, definitions, quotations, concrete details, and statistics or data added to an essay to support the claim.
What are types of evidence?
A writing skill that can help you find specific information in a text as you move your eyes rapidly over the text, looking only for key words that relate to your topic.
What is scanning?
Three elements needed for writing an introduction for an essay.
What is a "hook", "big picture", and thesis?
Created by adding reasons why the audience should agree with your claim that can be linked to the claim as "because" statements.
What is the thesis statement?
Words within the excerpt that are domain-specific; "earth is composed of many layers of rock. Far beneath the outer surface is the mantle, where high temperatures melt the rock. This molten rock is called magma." (Primavera)
What are magma and mantle?