Paper Formatting Basics
What is an appeal to ethics, or a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader.
What is Ethos?
What is a logical fallacy and what does it do to your writing?
What is an error in reasoning. Including fallacies in your writing weakens your argument.
In MLA format, what is another name for in-text citations?
What are parenthetical citations?
What is an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response.
What is Pathos?
What is defined as a statement of opinion by a magazine or newspaper, in which they write about current affairs?
What is an Editorial?
What is using other people’s words, thoughts, or ideas without giving them credit.
What is Plagiarism?
The thesis statement is a __________. Telling the reader what?
Roadmap - What your essay will be about
What is an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason, fact and rationality.
What is Logos?
Define FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE is used to create imagery and express things non-literally; it can help to make an idea more emotive, vivid and convincing.
What two things are listed in an in-text citation?
What is the author's last name and page number?
An outline is the _________ of your paper.
Skeleton
What is chiefly derogatory information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote, persuade, or publicize a particular political cause or point of view?
What is Propaganda?
What is Argument Writing?
Argument writing provides information AND presents an argument that includes the supporting and opposing viewpoint/argument.
How are quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing different?
Quoting uses an author’s exact words while paraphrasing and summarizing uses reworded statements. Paraphrasing is more detailed than summarizing since paraphrasing rephrases specific information, and summarizing recaps only the main points
In what way are the entries listed on a works cited page?
What is alphabetically?
What are the AIDA principles of marketing? (Hint:We went over this when we analyzed advertisements and their persuasive techniques)
What is
Attention: The advertisement should attract the attention of the customer.
Interest: In some way, the advertisement must create interest in the product.
Desire: Advertisements need to persuade customers that they desire the product.
Action: Finally, customers must be lead towards taking action and/or purchasing
What are three Logical Fallacies?
Answers Include:
Ad hominem, Ad Populum, Begging the questions, circular reasoning, false analogy, Hasty generalizations, non-sequitur, post hoc, red herring, slipper slope, straw man
What do you do if your citation is more than one line on a Works Cited page?
Use a Hanging Indent
What are three items you should not include in formal papers?
Answers include:
First person (I, we, you, etc.)
Slang = gonna
Contractions
abbreviations
Ending sentences with prepositions