Rhetoric
This rhetorical appeal refers to appealing to an audience's sense of logic.
Logos
This paragraph comes at the start of the essay. It gets the reader interested, provides context, and reveals the main point of the essay.
Introduction
The first sentence or two of a body paragraph that provide the central focus of the paragraph.
Topic sentence
These two pieces of information are needed for MLA in-text citations.
Author’s name and page number
The act of generating possible ideas for an essay. Few, some, or all ideas may be used.
Brainstorming
This rhetorical appeal refers to appealing to an audience's emotions.
Pathos
This part of the essay draws the reader in and grabs the reader's attention.
Hook or attention getter
The act of tying the topic of one body paragraph to the next.
Transition
These three pieces off information are needed for APA style in-text citations.
Author’s name, publication date, and page number
The final product. The essay is polished and ready for submission.
Final draft.
This rhetorical appeal refers to appealing to an audience's sense of credibility or authority over a subject.
Ethos
This paragraph is used at the end of the essay to wrap up the writer's main points.
Conclusion
The breaking down of ideas and evidence into smaller more easily understood pieces; taking the watch apart.
Analysis
On both MLA Works Cited pages and on APA references pages, the source entries are placed in this order.
Alphabetical order
A complete essay with an introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion, but the essay needs polishing.
Rough draft
This ancient Grecian philosopher had a positive view of rhetoric and argued that rhetoric could be used for study and to help audiences learn.
Aristotle
These kinds of paragraphs are located in the center of the essay, and they are used to support the thesis of the essay.
Body paragraphs
Quotes, paraphrases, summaries, descriptions of visual text.
Evidence
In APA this summary in given to the reader prior to the essay itself.
Abstract
An essay that is incomplete. It has some paragraphs but not all the paragraphs required.
Partial draft
This ancient Grecian philosopher had a negative view of rhetoric and argued that rhetoric was only used to cloak truth and manipulate audiences.
Plato
This comes at the end of the introduction paragraph. It is the main point of an essay.
Thesis statement
Connecting ideas and concepts from multiple pieces of evidence in hopes of providing a new perspective or idea; taking pieces from multiple watches and putting them together to make a new watch.
Synthesis
You need to know this information before attempting to look up a Works Cited or References page citation on Purdue OWL.
Source type
The map or skeleton of an essay. This guides the writer to ensure they have a strong organization in their essay.
Outline