Language, identity, and power
Writers use this type of language to help their readers get a sense of the movements of their thinking.
Metadiscourse
Seeley et al. state that entering a discourse community is like entering this component of an architectural structure.
A room.
The term for a particular category of rhetoric
Genre
When we engage sources in our writing, we track them with this practice so that our readers know where we got this information.
APA 7 requires an in-text citation for a specific element of a text to include three things: the author's name, the page number, and this third component.
The year of publication.
We started out the semester reading Malisa Zhou's Writing Story about the forces shaping her sense of ownership in her writing, with this title that clearly reflected its focus.
"Written By Me, But Not Mine."
The specific terminology used within a discourse community.
The formal term for the strategies that writers use to achieve their goals in their compositions.
Rhetorical moves
Remember: an argument is made up of two components—a claim and this second element (which itself contains two elements: evidence and analysis).
A source's argument may not be valid if this second component of their argument does not reasonably justify their claim.
Substantiation.
This element is missing from the following reference list entry:
Giles, S. L. (2010). Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking? In C. Lowe and P. Zemliansky, Writing Spaces (vol. 1). Parlor Press.
The page numbers of the chapter.
Sánchez-Martín argues that centering our real language identities in writing and, relatedly, honouring multilingualism is necessary to achieve this power dynamic.
Equity.
In this class, we established that a discourse community is defined by eight criteria, including shared goals, forms of intercommunication, a lexis, participatory mechanisms, genre, shared values and expectations, a power structure...and this final criterion.
Silential relations
As Grant-Davies notes, this term is used to refer “those people, real or imagined, with whom rhetors negotiate through discourse to achieve the rhetorical objectives” (p. 270)
Audience
Effectively working with a source in your writing requires you to do three things (aside from properly citing it), but not necessarily in this order: 1) introduce the source, 2) respond to/engage the source, and...this other thing.
Explain/describe the source.
This feature is in-correct in this reference list entry.
Grant-Davie, Keith. (1997). Rhetorical situations and their constituents. Rhetoric Review, 15(2), 264–270. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350199709359219
The use of the author's first name instead of their first initial.
The hegemony of this kind of English in education systems has normalized the (very false) idea that there is only one right way to write in English (especially in school or at work).
Standard Written English
This scholar introduced the concept of a "discourse community" in the 1990s and notably revised it in the 2016 article (published in ASp), "Reflections on the Concept of Discourse Community," assigned in this class.
John Swales
Schools and scholars have historically situated this philosopher's conceptualization of rhetoric as *the* framework for rhetoric (Carter-Tod gives us a much broader definition of rhetoric, destabilizing the hegemony of this philosopher's framework).
Aristotle
The UTM library website has a filter that allows you to limit your search to this particular kind of publication that has been validated by experts.
Peer-reviewed
The American Psychological Association.
Everything is formative; that is, everything is shaping and being shaped. Our histories (our personal experiences, the histories of our settings)—or where we know from—shape (limit, focus, destabilize and refocus) our understandings and, relatedly, our vocabularies. The words we use are the products of these formative processes and are themselves formative (shaping what ideas are articulated or not articulated in the world and thus what ways of thinking and being will be sheltered or silenced). So how and what we write (and express ourselves more broadly) matters; it affects what we know and, relatedly, how we act...and so how we live together.
This is because we live in—we emerge with and as—a web of formative forces. As I have reiterated throughout the semester, these formative forces are also known as (fill in the blank):
"[answer] dynamics"
Power
A subreddit is an example of this kind of discourse community.
Focal
A discourse always emerges with and is always regulated by formative forces.
In writing studies, we use this term to refer to the set of formative forces that give rise to and shape a discourse.
Rhetorical situation
A source published in this kind of for-profit academic press may not be credible.
Predatory/deceptive publisher.
On the board, write the reference list entry for this source.
Author: Prof. Danielle Martak
Title: Week 11 Lecture Slides
Format: PowerPoint slides
Platform of access: Quercus
Date posted: March 23, 2025
Martak, D. (2025, March 23). Week 11 Lecture Slides [PowerPoint slides]. Quercus. q.utoronto.ca
(see: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/powerpoint-references)