Writing Concepts
This phrase describes writing that only makes sense to the writer.
What is author-based prose?
This acronym stands for different ways of using sources.
What is BEAM / BEAT
This is a good way to get a sense of the structure of an article before you read it.
What is skimming the section headings?
A period goes here with respect to the quotation marks at the end of a quote.
Where is before the closing quotation mark?
In the words of Ellie, "it should look like this."
The Sikh religion requires men to wear this, but some American Sikhs have been anxious about wearing it since 9/11.
What is a turban?
These are the four common rhetorical moves of introductions.
What are common ground, problem statement, significance, and claim?
This kind of source supplies uncontroversial information.
What is a background source?
This revising technique helps the writer see what they have written and think about how to reorganize it.
What is a reverse outline?
The principle of “old before new” is useful in this part of an essay.
What are introductions, transitions, or sentences?
This form of the Church of England wanted a return to traditional "smells and bells."
What is Anglo-Catholicism?
These four features together define the rhetorical situation.
What are audience, purpose, context, and genre?
This is one purpose of referencing sources.
What is giving credit, backing up your claims, or showing a reader where to learn more?
The part of a paragraph that states the controlling idea of the paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
In addition to author, title, date, publisher, and page numbers, a citation for a chapter in an edited volume needs this information.
What is the book title and the editors?
All universities in the United States used to be affiliated with these, but today few are.
What are churches?
Cultural analysis starts with this kind of research question, which avoids judgment and focuses on descriptive analysis.
What is a conceptual research question?
The writer analyzes this kind of source, talking about it rather than talking to it.
What is an exhibit source?
Academic journals use this system to check that a submitted article uses valid methods for its discipline.
What is peer review?
“Old before new,” “familiar before unfamiliar,” and “short before long” are examples of this principle of style.
What is "simple before complex?"
Even though this Muslim holiday has been commercialized, it is rarely represented in mainstream American media.
What is Eid?
This bundle of conventions tells the reader what formal characteristics to expect from a piece of writing.
What is genre?
This catchphrase summarizes how one engages with argument sources.
What is "they say, I say?"
This way of reading helps you understand the author’s contribution to a disciplinary conversation.
What is reading for argument?
“Sentences tell stories” is the catchphrase of a writing style where the grammatical subject of a sentence corresponds to this part of the meaning.
What is the main character?
This theoretical term describes social institutions that are kind of like religion, but lack supernatural beliefs.
What is parareligion?