Definitions
Definitions II
Research Connections
Research Vocab
Campus Resources
100
The letters and words we use when we're communicating in writing.
What is alphabetic text?
100
A picture or visual representation
What is image?
100
Research depends highly on your audience. What key concepts help you figure out who you are writing for?
What are genre and field?
100
Gathering information to solve a problem or to find an answer to a question.
What is research?
100
The place you go to when you want to talk more in-depth about your research project with your instructor. For your class, Tuesdays from 10:30 - 12:30.
What are office hours?
200
A category or classification of something (ex: fiction, nonfiction, rock & roll)
What is genre?
200
The key concept that refers to the deliberate placement of words, images, and other content.
What is arrangement?
200
You won't be able to accomplish everything you want to do in a research paper. There is a key concept that deals with your possibilities and limitations of a text (a. arrangement, b. affordances, c. kairos, d. field)
What is affordances?
200
The term that refers to firsthand information on a topic (primary or secondary data?).
What is primary data?
200
Where can you find the office for counseling services on campus? Bonus: How many free sessions do you get a semester?
What is Plymouth Court and 12?
300
After the printing press was invented, texts were increasingly made more accessible to more people. This refers to the key concept of....
What is circulation?
300
The key concept that's an umbrella term referring to a related set of writers, what they write about, and the things they do (ex: Ke$ha studies, sociology, biology)
What is field?
300
True or false: Arrangement is required for your research paper.
What is true?
300
The term that refers to a longer project developed by taking field notes and interviewing people - mostly primary data and often used in anthropology and other social sciences (a. humanities, b. ethnography, c. kairos, d. lyric essay)
What is ethnography?
300
What is the name of the office where you can polish your resume, attend a job fair, and practice interview skills?
What is the Portfolio Center?
400
A fancy Greek word that has to do with how you portray yourself and who people think you are based on external things
What is ethos?
400
Key concept that refers to working with originals and other modes to re-produce and re-work content (ex: Grease as a Broadway musical, Grease as a movie, Grease as a high school play).
What is remix?
400
Explain why or why not ethos is relevant to your research
Open-ended. Ethos with people determines if they trust you during fieldwork and interviews; how you write your paper will give people an opinion of who you are (ex. if you write your paper on the KKK where you portray them in a positive light, people will probably think you are a racist)
400
Going out to your research site, you will be required to take notes. What do we call your notes? (a. field notes, b. ethnographic fieldwork, c. primary data, d. all of the above)
What is D, all of the above?
400
What TWO places can you go if you want to receive additional support in the shape of tutoring and improving writing skills?
What are the Learning Studio and the Writing Center?
500
The key concept that refers to a qualitative sense of time or seizing the most perfect moment.
What is kairos?
500
Name at least 10 key concepts covered in your Writing and Rhetoric I textbook.
What is alphabetic text, affordances, arrangement, image, kairos, ethos, remix, image, genre, circulation, field, mode.
500
How is research a remix?
Open-ended, but a remix because you're taking what already exists and combining it in a way to create something entirely new.
500
What is the one right way to conduct research?
Open ended.
500
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