Threshold Concepts
This depends on writers, readers, situation, technology, and use.
This word is used synonymously with "writer" or "speaker" in discussions of rhetorical situation.
What is "rhetor"?
In French, the word genre also means this.
What is "kind" or "type"?
These professors are the authors of our textbook and the first writing researchers to explore the Writing About Writing approach to writing studies.
Who are Elizabeth Wardle and Doug Downs?
This describes the kind of research that involves gathering data by making observations of existing data sets or by surveying and/or interviewing human subjects.
What is primary research?
This word expresses the idea that "it depends" when it comes to describing good writing.
What is "contingency" or "contingent"?
What is rhetorical agility?
Genres are sometimes described as the result of a rhetorical situation that happens on this basis.
What is "repeating" or "recurring"?
In writing about writing approaches to teaching writing, students and teachers are asked to do this after completing a task to think about how they performed the task, the challenges they faced, how they might have approached the task differently, how the task is meaningful, and how it connects to other kinds of tasks they may do in the future.
What is reflection?
This report is the guiding document for researchers who include human subjects in their research.
What is the Belmont Report?
This threshold concept reflects the idea that you always have more to learn as a writer, that you're writing is never perfect.
What is "writing is imperfectable"?
Rhetorical situations are comprised of these primary elements (there are three).
What are rhetor, audience, and purpose?
This genre is commonly used when an organization wants to share information with the public and wants the information to be covered by news organizations.
What is a press release?
Reflection, thinking about how you completed a task, helps improve the chances that this happens, that you will be able to apply the knowledge and skills to another situation.
What is transfer?
In the research process, after thinking about a topic, the next step is developing this, the question you want an answer to at the end of your research.
What is a central research question?
These kinds of experience affect you as a writer.
What are "prior experiences"?
In rhetoric, those factors that restrict the persuasive strategies or opportunities available to a speaker or writer. Lloyd Bitzer says these ______ could include beliefs, attitudes, documents, facts, tradition, image, interests, motives and the like.
What are "constraints"?
In this genre, an audience would expect to find information about a class, including information about the professor, how students will be evaluated, and class policies.
What is a syllabus?
In writing about writing classes, students often are asked to think about this aspect of writing--how they get ideas, draft, and revise their writing.
What is writing process?
In addition to conducting primary research, you will also gather this research, research others have done on your topic, such as journal articles, government reports, or other research from trusted sources.
What are secondary sources?
Writing is both an activity and also this, like psychology or physics.
What is a "field of study" or "subject"?
In rhetoric, this is describes the event--what happened--that gave rise to the rhetorical situation.
What is "exigence"?
This genre is a common academic genre that can be found in academic journals, is peer-reviewed, and includes documented sources.
What is a journal article?
In writing about writing classes, students are asked to think about their prior experiences related to reading and writing, also called ______________.
What is literacy or literacy history?
In research writing, you must do this whenever you use research from a secondary source.
What is cite?