Arguing a point
This is the most important sentence of any argumentative essay.
What is a thesis statement?
When a writer restates the idea from an article into his or her own words, we call it this.
What is paraphrasing?
According to MLA, the very last page of a research paper is called this.
What is a works cited page?
What is the error called in the sentence below:
The leaders in Europe are so furious at Brexit, they refuse to meet with Theresa may.
What is a run-on sentence or comma splice?
"Women cannot drive" is an example of this type of logical fallacy.
What is a hasty generalization?
An argumentative essay carries on this type of discussion often seen during presidential campaigns when all candidates appear on one stage.
What is a debate?
Readers generally know that they are coming upon quoted material because of the presence of this mark of punctuation.
What are quotation marks?
The two-part in-text citation required by MLA includes these two things.
What is a signal phrase and a parenthetical citation?
Which part of speech contains the error in the sentence below:
She would have did her homework if she did not get sick.
What is a verb?
A boss tells his employee: "You like your job or you don't. Which is it?"
This boss is guilty of this type of logical fallacy.
What is either/or or false dilemma?
This type of argument focuses on an issue of principle or morality, as in euthanasia.
What is an ethical argument?
All quoted material REQUIRES this phrase so as to avoid "ghost quotations."
What is a signal phrase?
What is the error in the following in-text citation:
According to Jack Smith in his article "Great Britain and Brexit," he believes that the EU will suffer far worse consequences than Britain will under Brexit ("Great Britain and Brexit Smith)
The name of author and title of article are used twice.
How should the sentence below be corrected:
One of the reasons the EU is unhappy are that Britain seems not to care about other countries' needs.
Are should be IS.
When a writer uses something to make his or her readers react emotionally, he or she is making this appeal.
What is pathos?
An argument that provides ample evidence (statistics, expert opinion, etc.) is making this type of appeal.
Logos.
If a writer wants to quote a passage from her article that is 6 lines long, she needs to do this.
Indent the entire quotation on the left side, leave off quotation marks, put the signal phrase in the paragraph.
What is the error in the following in-text citation:
In her book, Sandy Clement notes that Britain cannot survive without the European Union (Clement).
The parenthetical citation should have a page number instead of the last name repeated.
Words that have the same pronounciation but different spelling, such as "their, there, and they're" are called this.
What are homonyms?
Alex Trebec represents Colonial Penn Life Insurance on television. Colonial Penn uses him because of his television celebrity.
This is an example of this kind of appeal.
What is ethos?
A good argument always incorporates the views of the "other side" known as this.
Counterarguments or opposing views.
A writer finding and restating the thesis and supporting points of an article into his or her own words and arranging the restatements into paragraph form is writing this type of assignment.
What is summarizing or summary?
What is wrong with the following in-text citation:
Amanda Jones notes in her lengthy discussion:
"Many of the EU's members are smaller
in population. They do not have the same
needs that larger countries have. If the EU
continues to lump all European nations
into one category, some country will
suffer. Belgium is one country that isn't
thrilled about Brexit and the EU's reaction
to it" (pg. 211).
No quotation marks needed, no "pg" needed, period comes before the parenthetical citation.
Which is the fragment below and how can this fragment be easily corrected:
Theresa May is one of Britian's most mysterious leaders. Especially when it comes to her opinion of Donald Trump.
Attach the fragment to the previous sentence.
A doctor tells a patient: "I have done 23 surgeries of this kind. I have had a 79% success rate with those surgeries" to establish this type of appeal.
What is ethos?