PART 1
Summarizing without any regard to one’s own interest, simply making an inventory of the original author’s various points but failing to focus these points around any larger overall claim.
What is a list summary?
According to your English teacher, Ms. Maffei, you should NOT use this in your argument.
What is the personal pronoun "I"?
They signal to readers where the text is going: in the same direction it has been moving, or in a new direction.
What are transition terms?
To make sure that everyone is on the same page, the editors recommend what in oral discussions about complicated issues that are open to multiple interpretations?
What is restating the author and their argument?
Others’ perspectives on the topic.
What is "They Say"?
Writers must momentarily suspending their own beliefs/opinions/ideas and assume the beliefs/opinions/ideas of those in the conversation.
What is Peter Elbows the believing game?
Words in a text that function like clues and signal or help to distinguish the different perspectives in an essay.
What are voice markers?
Used to refer back to some concept in the previous sentence. For example: "This", "That", "These"...
What are pointing words?
The very volume of new information that the web makes so easily available overwhelms us and prevents us from thinking clearly.
What is a negative result of online technology?
Your response to what “they say”.
What is "I Say"?
Quotation that doesn’t have a frame (intro/ explanation) surrounding it.
What is a dangling quotation?
The group or person who has a stake in the topic at hand.
What is "Who Cares?"?
Writing the way that one would speak.
What is Colloquial writing?
In texts where this is not immediately identified, you have to construct it yourself based on the clues the text provides (locating the writer's thesis, then imagine some of the arguments that might be made against it).
What is the central “They Say/ I Say”?
A way of commenting on your claims and telling readers how and how not to think about them.
What is meta-commentary?
To use related quotes that best support the writer’s argument.
What does it mean to quote relevant passages?
Linking your argument to some larger matter that the readers already deem important.
What is "So What?"?
Words like “this”, “that”, “these”, “those”...in a text that do NOT clearly refer to anything previously stated.
What are free-floating pointer words?
Evidence found in this is always debatable, however, some interpretations are simply incorrect.
What is a literary work?
Viewpoints in your essay that might be against you, but actually strengthen your argument.
What is a naysayer?
Writers quote too much, too little, or do not explain the quote.
What are common mistakes writers make when quoting?
With a strong, clear, and straightforward stance.
How should you begin your response?
I can be used to make a statement, help a writer underscore a point, and/or make dry scholarly prose more enjoyable and lively.
What are reason to mix academic, professional language with popular, informal expressions?
In this discipline, data is used to develop and test explanations by saying what you have done with your data (close your quote sandwich), by indicating where you got the data (citation), by defining your data (is it authoritative?).
What is writing in the Social Sciences?
Properly providing a lead-in and explanation for each quotation.
What is Quote Sandwich?