Unit 1
Accomplished in separate parts or bit by bit
What is piecemeal?
causing harm or destruction
What is deleterious?
quality or state of having superior rank or importance
What is preeminence?
willing to accept something that is asked for or wanted
What is amenable?
accomplishment or realization of a goal
What is fruition?
These can be used as evidence to support or help explain a central idea
What are key details?
An error in which independent clauses are joined together with only a comma between them.
What is a comma splice?
the writer focuses on the credibility of the speaker
What is ethos?
a central message or universal truth conveyed by a text
a prediction related to the response of someone who disagrees with the author's ideas
What is rebuttal?
This is based on a personal opinion.
What is a subjective paragraph?
writing information in your own words
What is paraphrasing?
this process focuses on the substance of your paper
What is revision?
a brief story that is relevant to the topic and audience
What is anecdote?
step of the writing process includes correcting errors in spelling, grammar, usage, and punctuation
What is editing?
The two actions you perform when looking for meaning in informational text.
What is determine and discover?
the art of persuasion
what is rhetoric?
the focus on commonly held emotions or beliefs
What is pathos?
opposite
What is antithesis?
people link individual events to frequently occurring patterns
What is inductive reasoning?
the types of evidence
What is relevant, irrelevant, sufficient, insufficient, valid, or invalid?
using someone's research, writing, or ideas as you own without giving the source proper credit
What is plagiarism?
focuses on proofreading for grammar and syntax
What is editing?
identifying a problem and then arguing for a particular solution
What is problem-and-solution?
handing off your finalized argument essay to the audience
What is publishing?