vocab
[Blank] is called, the awareness and understanding of another's thoughts and emotions.
What is empathy?
The overarching message or truth that is specific to a text.
What is the central idea?
these things make up a good research question.
what is reasonable scope, specificity and focus?
Borge wants to know what rhetorical devices are being used in a text. What can he do to find this out?
Borge can use for different types of argument. Arguments from ethos pathos and logos are important to look for.
Jill has an essay full of vaguely related facts, but little elaboration upon those facts. What is something that could help?
Jill needs a central idea
The quality of being determined or of holding fast.
What is tenacity?
A literary device that is meant to explain a concept abstractly.
Figurative language
What are tools writers have available to help with word choice?
Dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries.
Mifa is trying to find out what the authors purpose is, how can she find this out?
By analyzing word choice, objectivity, and use of literary or rhetorical devices.
joey want's to explain technical jargon, but doesn't know how to do it in a way that readers will understand. What can joey do?
joey can use figurative language.
state of currently occupying an office
What is incumbency?
how information is organized in a text
what is text structure?
Ethos, pathos, logos, and Kairos
Shlommitz doesn't know if a work is fictional or history, and would like to find out. How can he find this out?
Shlommitz can find this out by looking up the author, or by comparing it to other recounts of the event (if they exist).
Billy has found a piece of information from a text that backs his claim up very convincingly, what can he do to make sure this information is reliable?
He can make sure the text is accurate and credible.
A 9 letter word for abundance of wealth.
What is affluence?
The criteria for evaluating sources includes but is not limited to:
what are accuracy, relevance, and credibility?
The most persuasive part of an argument essay
the counterclaim paragraph.
Bobby has a runny nose, he looks up what to do, and finds conflicting sources on what he should do. How can he find out which source is most reliable. He does not have much time.
Billy can check the link, to see if one of the websites is a government resource. he can also look to product based bias.
Joetta has an argument essay, but she thinks there are things that she can effectively disprove that would make her essay stronger. How can she do this?
By adding a counterclaim paragraph.
the quality of existing throughout something is called
pervasiveness
Key parts of an objective summary include:
what are objective tone, formal style, and complex domain-specific vocabulary.
What are parts of style
tone, voice, and structure
Check how possible the claims are, and the publisher of the articles reputation.
Barbacoa has an essay to turn in, but a friend tells him his essay sound off with his essay, what could be wrong? (hint: his essay is written informally)
His tone is informal.