Writing in your own words while condensing an author's views.
What is a summary?
100
An alphabetical list of sources cited in a research paper.
What is the Works Cited?
100
Scholarly journals, national circulated newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, and recently published books from the college library.
What is credible source material?
200
Maintaining first-person or third-person throughout your writing.
What is consistent point of view?
200
The sentence that contains the controlling idea of an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
200
Concise description of the main idea in a piece of writing.
What is a title?
200
Not giving credit when a writer uses someone else's ideas, research or words; failing to quote when using exact wording, even with credit; submitting a paper written by someone else or written for another purpose without express permission of both instructors.
What is plagiarism?
200
The intersection of logos, ethos, and pathos.
What is the rhetorical triangle?
300
Matching the pronoun in a prepositional phrase to the direct object of the verb.
What is proper pronoun-antecedent agreement?
300
Determining the audience's knowledge of the subject and level of resistance to your views?
What is accommodating your audience?
300
An explanation of the point of disagreement.
What is a stasis?
300
The documentation style favored by English departments
What is MLA?
300
The timing and appropriateness of an argument.
What is the kairos?
400
Punctuation used to join independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction such as "and".
What is a comma?
400
A paper that anticipates opposing arguments, offers a clear statement of the author's thesis, and uses sources that support the author's thesis.
What is a good persuasive paper?
400
A sentence at the beginning of a paragraph that gives the main idea of the paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
400
Using direct quotes and ideas not commonly known.
When is citation required?
400
Categorical, definitional, cause/consequence, resemblance, evaluation, proposal, and hybrid.
What are types of claims?
500
A sentence with a subject and a verb.
What is a grammatically complete sentence?
500
An unstated assumption shared by a writer's audience.
What is a warrant?
500
A fallacy that occurs when someone makes a broad generalization on the basis of too little evidence
What is hasty generalization?
500
A quote four or more lines long that is indented and not set off in quotation marks.
What is a block quote?
500
A summary that does not accurately portray the argument of the original.