Rhetorical Concepts
A group of people who share the same goals, interests, genres, and ways of communicating
Discourse Community
Looking back on your work and changing it to make it better.
Revision
A story told about reading, writing, learning.
Literacy Narrative.
The source material you look at in your research paper to make an analysis.
Primary source.
What is an academic term for world views or beliefs.
Ideologies.
The reader or viewer of a particular work
Audience
Cover Memo
The parameters of form.
Constraints.
The source material that consists of what others have to say about your object of analysis.
Secondary source.
The criteria your final papers are graded on.
Revision.
Background or supporting information
Context
Returning to something again and again to find new meaning would be described as
Recursive.
What is wrong with the way this quote is integrated?:
We should all be prepared with a backup plan if a zombie invasion occurs. “Unlike its human counterparts, an army of zombies is completely independent of support” (Brooks 155). Preparations should be made in the following areas. . . .
The form of citational practice we use in this class.
MLA
The way aspects of vocabulary link parts of texts together
Lexical cohesion.
Forms of communication
Literacy
Interpreting a genre for its specific meaning.
Rhetorical analysis.
The piece we read for class that talks about the three parts of a paper: research, critical reading (understanding complex ideas), and analysis. Warns against the five paragraph essay.
What is Academic Writing (Irvin).
The title on our main source book on the genre of our discourse community project.
The Language of Magazines (McLoughlin).
In this music video set in a famous museum, two singers subvert dominant understandings of the museum how?
Name the museum, the two singers and the purpose of their music video.
Louvre
Beyonce and Jay Z
They are occupying a space that has historically been linked to colonialism, racial violence against black bodies, and white elitism. In doing so “they draw a line between the absence of black subjects in western painting and art institutions and the persisting racial violence that ravages not only the United States, but also France and other areas of the African diaspora.”
A category based on specific form, style, content. Give an example and an explanation.
Genre.
The piece we read in the beginning of the quarter about paying attention to language and how it specifically affects the reader.
How to Read Like a Writer (Bunn).
What is a fully formed system of communication vs a subset of that system?
Who critiques common citational practice as it relates to gender? What is the critique?
Sara Ahmed, that mostly men are cited in scholarship.
What is the assignment that allows you space to reflect on your rhetorical choices in this class?
Cover Memo, Portfolio Reflection Essay