Writing & Genre
Specialized language used by professionals in a specific field.
Jargon
Where can you go on campus for help with citations?
The WaLC
The process of scholars reading and providing feedback on each other's research before that research is published in academic journals.
Peer review
The process of marking up a text as you read by highlighting, underlining, making marginal notes, etc.
Annotating
Established (often unwritten) rules, techniques, and elements that define a specific genre.
Genre conventions
What is the website called that you can refer to for info on APA, MLA, and Chicago style formatting?
Purdue OWL
A list of citations for books, articles, and other materials used for research.
Bibliography (or "References" in APA, or "Works Cited" in MLA)
A form of writing that adopts a pre-existing structure (such as a recipe, bingo card, or obituary) to explore personal narratives.
Hermit crab essay
This writing strategy is a way to map scholarly conversations by discussing points of agreement, disagreement, tension, etc.
Synthesis
True or false: An in-text APA citation requires the year of publication.
True
A searchable, organized collection of electronic information (e.g., articles).
Database
The approach to teaching writing to help students figure out how professionals write in their own disciplines. The study of specific genres, conventions, and rhetorical traditions of a particular academic field or profession.
Writing in the Disciplines
According to Carolyn Miller, genres are sets of recurring __________ __________, which create recurring ___________, which creates ______ _____.
Recurring rhetorical situations, which create recurring conventions, which create social action
True or false: An in-text MLA citation requires the author’s first name.
False
The name for the terms AND, OR, and NOT when searching library databases.
Boolean operators
This doctrine is an exception to copyright law that states that some uses of copyrighted material are permissible.
Fair use