Genre Conventions
Writing characterized by imagery, metaphor, sensory details and a lyrical style
What is poetry?
The most common way to organize information before writing an essay
What is an outline?
Rhetoric is the art of this
What is persuasion?
The ability to read and write in a given language
What is literacy?
The mascot for NMU sports teams
What is Wildcat(s)?
The main idea or proposition in an essay
What is a thesis statement?
Process where students read and comment on other students’ work
What is peer review?
How the appeals of logos, pathos and ethos are often represented visually
What is a (rhetorical) triangle?
Novels, poems and essays are examples of these
What are genres?
The building housing the English department offices
What is Jamrich Hall?
An essay that tells a personal story
What is a narrative (essay)?
A framework that explains how an essay will be assessed
What is a rubric?
The appeal that describes using evidence from an expert
What is ethos?
These identify the source of information in an essay
What are citations?
NMU’s library is named after this person
Who is (Lydia M.) Olsen?
What persuasive essays end with so audiences know how to respond
What is a call to action?
The phase of the writing process when “The 5Es” activities are performed
The appeal that describes the importance of when something was said or written
What is Kairos?
An essay that explains something
What is expository (essay)?
The building where NMU’s hockey team plays its games
What is the Superior Dome?
The most critical aspect of an oral presentation
What is the introduction?
Process when a writer considers what was learned by doing an assignment
What is self-reflection?
Hasty generalizations and circular reasoning are types of these
What are logical fallacies?
A project containing written, spoken and/or visual information
What is multi-modal?
Where students can receive 1:1 support for their Composition and other papers.
What is the Writing Center?