Rhetoric
Name and define the three rhetorical appeals
What are Ethos (authority/credibility), pathos (emotion), and logos (statistics/numbers)
This east-coast magazine features cover illustrations that rhetorically weigh in on recent events in American culture.
What is "The New Yorker"
This acronym describes a test a student or citizen can use to determine the value of information in a given situation
What is a "C.R.R.A.A.P" test
These two workplace writing genres will be written by every student in class to help them obtain a job or an internship
What are "resumes and cover letters"
True or false: Citation styles like MLA and APA have officially sanctioned ways to cite AI in academic writing
True!
This rhetorical process refers to the "ideal timing" to do something that is subjective, emotion-laden, and cultural
What is "kairos"
This is Prof Richter's favorite part of argumentative writing to read
What is "counterargument"
What are "parentheses with the author's last name and the page number inside" (Prof Richter's judgement)
Prof Richter used an example factsheet from this health-related government organization in class to showcase effective document design
What is the "Center for Disease Control and Prevention" (or just CDC)
This technology company's AI told users to put glue in their pizza and to run with scissors to stay healthy as recently as Summer 2024.
What is "Google"
In this rhetorical process, a visual icon or written term stands in for and represents some much larger idea
What is "symbol" (or "symbolism")
These two goals are what determine if a thesis statement is successful or not
What are "communicating an argument" and "giving the reader a heads up/preview/"coming soon" about supporting evidence or subtopics
Name 3 ways to tell if a source is scholarly or an academic journal article
What are works cited pages, dense technical language, volumes or numbers listed, author affiliations listed, no advertisements, methods and discussion sections
This company allegedly wrote the worst example of public writing that Prof Richter has ever seen when alerting residents of a town about an upcoming test they were conducting
What is "SpaceX"
This is a video or sound clip that has been distorted by AI to create something that is fake or fictitious but that looks to most people like it's real
What is a "deepfake"
A debate between these two presidential candidates in the 1960s showcases the importance of visual appearance and visual rhetoric
Who are John Kennedy and Richard Nixon
A counterargument must do these two things to be successful in academic writing
What are "state an opposing viewpoint" and "refute that viewpoint by stating why it's wrong, what it's missing, or what evidence it isn't factoring in"
This database, which is available to you for free as a GW student, is Prof Richter's favorite.
What is "Academic Search Complete"
This genre of workplace writing is nearly ubiquitous across different industries and involves both conveying existing knowledge and making a suggestion for what should be done in the future based on that knowledge
What is the "Recommendation Report"
This is a huge corpus of real-world information that an AI is trained on and "learns from"
What is a "Large Language Model" or LLM
These three elements comprise the "rhetorical situation"
This "annoyance" mentioned in Kyle Stedman's article "Annoying Ways People Use Source" uses an animal in its name and refers to a writer not properly introducing a quotation to their reader
What is "armadillo roadkill"
This research librarian helped teach us Zotero and how to use GW databases
Who is "Misty Trunnell"
What does the acronym B.L.U.F., which Martha Coven borrows from the US Department of Defense in her book “Writing on the Job,” stand for?
"Bottom Line Up Front"
This AI CEO wrote a Washington Post opinion article about AI's role in education that we read earlier in the semester.
Who is "Sam Altman"