Rhetorical Questions
Literature Review
Researching
MSU IQ
100

This Rhetorical Appeal works to persuade an audience by playing on its emotions and imagination.

What is Pathos?
100
The author of the Handmaid's Tale.
Who is Margaret Atwood?
100
Wikipedia is not a good website to cite, but it does offer these for further research.
What are References?
100
The name of the Mavericks' mascot.
Who is Stomper?
200

This part of the Rhetorical Situation concerns the type of thing being made and its conventions.

What is Genre?
200
The main character (and narrator) of The Handmaid's Tale.
Who is Offred?
200

This is the type of research one does when interviewing, designing surveys, or performing fieldwork.

What is Primary Research?
200
The most recently built building on campus.
What is the Clinical Sciences Building?
300

This Rhetorical Appeal works to persuade an audience through reason, data, and logic.

What is Logos?
300

This Handmaid's Tale character said, "Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some."

Who is The Commander?
300
The MSU Library's online tool for finding everything from books to movies to scholarly articles.
What is MavScholar?
300
For more than 50 years, this professional sports team geared up for the season at MSU each summer.
Who are the Minnesota Vikings?
400

This part of the Rhetorical Situation concerns who will view, read, or hear the thing being made.

What is Audience?
400
Offred's real name in the TV adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale.
What is June?
400

This is the type of research one does when simply consulting studies already created by other experts.

What is Secondary Research?
400
The name of the president of the university.
Who is Pres. Richard Davenport?
500

This Rhetorical Appeal works to persuade an audience through credibility and using well-known experts.

What is Ethos?
500
The author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
Who is Rebecca Skloot?
500

These types of scholarly journals have been looked at and approved by another expert in the same field.

What are Peer Reviewed Journals?
500
Founded as the Mankato Normal School, the university was founded in this year.

(Hint: 2018 marks MSU's sesquicentennial anniversary.)

What is 1868?
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