Reading Notes
Body Paragraphs
MLA Formatting
Critical Thinking
Rhetoric
100

Tobar reveals that the concept of whiteness is about this many years old.

About 500 years

100

The first sentence or two of a body paragraph that provide the central focus of the paragraph.

Topic sentence

100

In MLA formatting, these 2 pieces of information are need in the top, right-hand corner of each page.

Writer's last name and page number

100

This term refers to subconscious quick judgements we make to help us make decisions quickly 

Cognitive Biases

100

This term refers to how a person uses language to persuade or convince someone to think or feel a particular way about a particular subject.

Rhetoric

200

This man assassinated MLK, and according to Tobar,  he had "a longing to wrap himself in the exalted cloak of whiteness, and the many fictions of whiteness" (74).

James Earl Ray

200

Sentences, phrases, or even words that are used to help improve a writer's flow.

Transitions

200

This page is placed after the essay itself. This page contains a list of all the sources mentioned in the essay.

Works cited page

200

This kind of cognitive bias refers to when a person feels like they need to agree with the larger group

Peer pressure bias

200

This rhetorical appeal refers to using emotion to persuade an audience.

Pathos

300

In the introduction to Orientalism, this author wrote about how "othering" was used to subjugate and oppress.

Edward Said

300

The breaking down of ideas into smaller more easily understood components.

Analysis

300

This kind of citation is used when citing a source within the essay itself.

In-text citation

300

This term refers to the discomfort a person has while holding to competing beliefs.

Cognitive dissonance

300

This rhetorical appeal refers to using logic to persuade an audience.

Logos

400

This author claimed, "National boundaries create our 'illegality' and our 'otherness'" (172).

Hector Tobar

400

Quotes, paraphrases, summaries, descriptions. Anything that the writer uses to support their claims.

Evidence

400

On MLA works cited pages, the source entries are placed in this order.

Alphabetical

400

This type of cognitive bias refers to when people use the first piece of information they receive to make judgements on later pieces of information. For example, if you saw a bottle of wine marketed at $2000 and then one marketed at $200, you may think the second bottle is inexpensive.

Anchoring bias

400

This rhetorical appeal refers to the use of credibility to persuade an audience.

Ethos

500

According to Bauer and Bourhis, this type of power "address[es] how individuals cognitively
and affectively organize their perceptions and evaluations of social reality, often as detached
individuals not much affected by the social context in which they live" (602).

Intra-personal

500

The tying together of ideas and sources to support a new idea or concept.

Synthesis

500

These 2 pieces of information are needed to provide an in-text citation for a book.

Author's last name and page number.

500

This kind of bias happens when people unconsciously work to protect their own ego. For example, someone may "cherry-pick" feedback to support their high opinion of themselves

Self-serving bias

500

These 3 terms refers to the 3 main points central to a rhetorical situation.

Author, audience, and subject

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