Key Terms
Returning to a draft to rethink, reread, and rework ideas and sentences.
What is revising?
The specific features of texts, written or spoken, that cause them to be meaningful, purposeful, and effective for readers or listeners in a situation.
What is rhetoric?
Reading to experience the world of the text.
What is aesthetic reading?
__________ introduces the topic to the reader, limits the topic to a single idea, and expresses the writer's approach to the topic.
What is the thesis statement?
Hasty generalizations, begging the question, and disconnected ideas are examples of these.
What are logical fallacies?
A formal variety of writing that offers reasons for or against something.
What is argumentation?
Seeking help for one’s writing from a reader.
What is consulting?
Reading to garner information from a text.
A form of writing with the purpose to explain, inform, or analyze.
What is exposition?
This unfair emotional appeal occurs when projecting positive or negative qualities of a person/entity/object onto another in order to make the second more acceptable or to discredit it.
What is transfer?
One of the traditional elements of rhetorical composition.
What is a canon?
Writing or speaking that implies the contrary of what is actually written or spoken.
What is irony?
A set of assumptions, skills, facts, and experience that a reader brings to a text to make meaning.
What is a repertoire?
The L in the PEEL method of body paragraph development stands for this.
What is Link?
This step of writing powerful arguments involves "casting a wide net" to help select the best evidence available for an argument.
What is Gather and Evaluate Your Evidence?
A method of logic consisting of the presentation of a series of facts, pieces of information, or instances in order to formulate or build a likely generalization.
What is induction or inductive reasoning?
Referring to the moving back and forth from invention to revision in the process of writing.
What is recursive?
Along with Invent and Investigate, this is the third component of the Pre-Writing (Inventing) process.
What is Plan?
One trait distinguishes experienced from inexperienced writers is that experienced writers understand fully the need to do this.
What is revise?
A process of reasoning that proceeds from the general to the particular.
What is deduction or deductive reasoning?
The reasons, support, and evidence presented to support your claim.
What are grounds?
A stated or unstated belief, rule, or principle that underlies an argument.
What is a warrant?
Reading theorist Louise Rosenblatt explains the interaction between the reader and the writer’s text results in __________, defined as the interpretive moment when reader and text connect.
What is a poem?
This appeal is the fundamental purpose of formal argumentation.
What is logos?
This unfair emotional appeal concludes that a proposition is true because many or most people believe it.
What is argumentum ad populum (to the people)?