Grammar
Avoid ending sentences with ____________.
Prepositions
Used in deductive reasoning, this has three parts: a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion
Syllogism
Name Aristotle's three appeals.
Ethos, pathos, logos
Hemingway wrote between the lines. This was part of his ________ method.
Iceberg
Seek material from _____ - reviewed sources.
Peer
_________ voice occurs when the subject is not conducting the action of the verb.
Passive
This form of reasoning puts specific observations to make general conclusions—often with the help of an educated guess.
Inductive Reasoning
Name the four pillars of an argument.
Thesis, Evidence, Refutation, Conclusion
Rachel Carson's book __________ is credited with starting the environmental movement.
Silent Spring
.com is short for what?
Commercial
Syntax refers to ___________.
Sentence structure
A syllogism is only sound when it's both _______ and _______.
Valid and true
A topic is debatable when you can form this.
Antithesis
___________ wrote an essay about the three sisters in gardening.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Objective
These two types of words/phrases are modifiers.
Adjective + Adverb
This logical fallacy reduces the other side's argument to something easily attacked and then attacks the reduction.
Straw man
This refers to any images or ideas evoked by the use of a word (as opposed to its literal definition).
Connotation
__________ asserts there is no ultimate truth, therefore "you do you".
In-text cites should include the author's last name as well as this.
The location of the information in text.
This refers to the last comma before the conjunction in a serial list within a sentence.
Oxford Comma
This logical fallacy asserts that a point of reasoning must be untrue because it is inconsistent with the speaker's actions.
Tu Quoque
Among pupils, Aristotle tutored this man.
Alexander the Great
This is the title of the David James Duncan story we read for class.
"Not Rocking the Boat"
Quotes don't float. Ground them with these two anchors.
Introductory phrase/sentence + parenthetical citation