Unit 1
The state of being susceptible to damage or injury or lacking defenses
What is Vulnerability?
To make more severe; to intensify.
What is Exacerbate?
The state of currently occupying an office
What is Incumbency?
A state of society in which diverse groups participate.
What is Pluralism?
Protection against loss or damage.
What is Indemnity?
Ambiguity improves a piece of literature.
Why does ambiguity increase the audiences interest?
Message, Audience, Writer/Speaker
What are the points of the rhetorical triangle?
An appeal to ethics.
What is Ethos?
Allusion, Diction and Syntax
What are different type of rhetorical features?
A text that is considered to have been historically significant in its attempt to persuade policy makers.
What is a work of public advocacy?
Valid, Relevant, and Sufficient
What is a good piece of evidence?
Words such as electrolysis, oxidization, or Nitrogen Peroxide.
What is technical vocabulary?
Furthermore, then, consequently.
What are examples of transitional words?
Asking yourself who they are, what they know, and how they feel.
How do I understand an audience?
When you edit an essay to make sure it makes sense, provides well placed evidence, and has no errors in syntax.
What is revising an essay?
To analyze in ambiguous piece of text.
Why should I question the purpose and implications of a passage?
Formal, Informal, Positive, and Negative.
What are examples of tone?
The use of facts, statistics, and data to persuade.
What are examples of Logos
Looking for the topic can help you determine the answer.
How can you find the theme?
Indicator words for ????? include “therefore,” “thus,” “which proves that,” and “it follows that.”
How can you find the conclusion?
A better form of evidence for making a summary.
What is General evidence?
Searching for the main idea in an article
What is skimming?
Their purpose is to provide a powerful rhetorical tool in the form of a visual.
What is the purpose of multimedia components?
It helps you address any objections that readers have to your argument.
Why do we use a Counterclaim?
You place it in the introduction and conclusion.
When do you write your thesis statement?