The appeal to reason. It refers to the quality of the message itself--to its internal consistency, to its clarity in asserting a thesis or point, and to the quality of reasons and evidence used to support the point.
What is logos?
100
When you_______________, you try to see the world through the author's eyes, role-playing as much as possible the author's intended readers by adopting their beliefs and values and acquiring their background knowledge.
What is reading with the grain?
100
To steal and pass off the ideas of others as one's own.
What is plagiarism?
100
You do this if you want to emphasize an author's ideas as opposed to their specific langauge.
What is paraphrase?
100
The name of the library's catalog. You can use it to serach the library's holdings.
What is Delcat?
200
This is the appeal to the sympathies, values, beliefs, and emotions of the audience.
What is pathos?
200
When you _____________, you question and perhaps even rebut the author's ideas. You are a resistant reader who asks unanticipated questions, pushes back, and reads the text in ways unforseen by the author.
What is reading against the grain?
200
True or False: When you paraphrase a source, you do not need to include an in-text citation.
What is false?
200
This is the name of the format used when a quotation exceeds four lines.
What is a block quote?
200
True or False: A .org website is always credible
What is false?
300
The appeal to the character of the speaker or writer. It refers to the speaker or writer's trustworithiness credibility.
What is ethos?
300
You can distinguish your words from the words of the text that you are quoting by using _____________. Hint: The missing word means "signal phrase."
What are attributive tags?
300
When you are citing a website, these are the two dates you should always include.
What is the date you accessed the website and the date when the site was last updated?
300
A brief restatement in your own words of the source's main ideas.
What is a summary?
300
JSTOR, Academic Onefile and LexisNexis Academic are examples of __________.
What are databases?
400
Also might be called a lens, a filter, a perspective, a bias, a point of view. This is important tothink about because it affects the kind of information presented.
What is angle of vision?
400
This is usually closed-form and thesis-driven. It has a thesis that captures the writer's overall assessment of the text and maps out the specific points that the writer will develop in the analysis.
What is a strong response as rhetorical critique?
400
In the following sentence and in-text citation, where do you put the period?
Sociologist Daniel Bell called this emerging U.S. economy the "post industrial society" (3)
What is after the parentheses?
400
These supply information to enable a reader to find the correct source listing in the Works Cited List.
What are in-text citations?
400
The name of the librarian who led our library orientation session.
What is Meg Grotti?
500
All messages persuade through their___________. Hint: The missing word means "perspective" or "point of view."
What is angle of vision?
500
Often, __________ are written to certain specifications, say, one-tenth of the original article, or 200 words, or 100 words.
What are summaries?
500
This is the way that you format the names of databases.
What is italicize it?
500
This reproduces an actual part of a source, word for word, to support a statement or idea, to provide an example, to advance an argument, or to add interest or color to a discussion.
What is a quotation?
500
"The accuracy of factual data in a source as determined by external validation."