Key Terms
The specific features of texts, written or spoken, that cause them to be meaningful, purposeful, and effective for readers or listeners in a given situation.
What is rhetoric?
The appeal of a text to the emotions or interests of the audience.
What is pathos?
This is the final step of the PEEL method.
What is link? (Link your supporting point and evidence to your thesis and segue to your next point.)
This appeal is referred to as the fundamental purpose of argumentation.
What is logos?
Part of the revising process that involves seeking help for one's writing from a reader.
What is consulting?
A form of logic that begins with a generally stated truth or principle and then offers details, examples, and reasoning to support the generalization.
What is a deduction (deductive reasoning)?
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 (inductive reasoning)?
This form of writing has the purpose to explain, inform, or analyze.
What is exposition (expository writing)?
Often used in propaganda and advertising, this unfair emotional appeal occurs when the speaker projects positive or negative qualities of a person, entity, object, or value onto another in order to make the second more acceptable or to discredit it.
What is transfer?
A set of assumptions, skills, facts, and experience that a reader brings to a text to make meaning.
What is a repertoire?
Referring to the moving back and forth from invention to revision in the process of writing.
What is recursive?
A formal variety of writing that offers reasons for or against something.
What is argumentation?
Understanding fully the need to do this part of the writing process is a trait that distinguishes experienced from inexperienced writers.
What is revise?
This unfair emotional appeal occurs when the speaker discredits a person rather than the position.
What is argumentum ad hominem (to the man)?
Reading to experience the world of the text.
What is aesthetic reading?
A method in argumentation by which writers recognize and deal effectively with the arguments of their opponents.
What is refutation?
An error in logic or in the reasoning process.
What is a (logical) fallacy?
A form of writing that examines causes and effects of events or conditions as they relate to a specific subject.
What is causal analysis?
This logical fallacy typically employs words like "all," "never," "always," and "none" to state something absolutely or categorically.
What are broad generalizations?
Reading to garner information from a text.
What is efferent reading?
A stated or unstated belief, rule, or principle that underlies an argument.
What is a warrant?
The reasons, support, and evidence presented to support your claim.
What are the grounds?
This body paragraph development strategy develops your paragraph beyond the topic sentence sufficiently to support key ideas using facts, statistics, examples, personal experience, quotations, process, and/or comparison and contrast.
What is illustration?
This logical fallacy is a circular argument in which the conclusion is included in the premise.
What is begging the question?
Reading theorist Louise Rosenblatt explains the interaction between the reader and the writer's text results in this, which is defined as the interpretive moment when reader and text connect.
What is a poem?