Mindful Writing Definitions
The study and art of effective communication.
What is rhetoric?
Drafting is part of this step.
What is practice?
To avoid typos in your paper, you should do this.
What is read your paper out loud?
Our tendency to seek out and interpret new evidence in ways that confirm what you already think.
What is confirmation bias?
What is Diet Coke?
The opportune or fitting moment for action.
What is kairos?
A statement explaining to yourself what you want your writing to look like when it's done.
What is a specific product goal?
Don't be a jerk to your audience or you will ruin this.
What is your ethos?
This type of leadership creates bonds of trust through activating pride, loyalty, and enthusiasm among employees.
What is transformational leadership?
Professor Low has master's degrees from these two universities.
What are BYU and Harvard?
Unspoken values, beliefs, or principles that arguers think they share with their audience.
What are assumptions?
What is revise?
Often overlooked, these important strategies for getting along in the world are the means of motivating, guiding, influencing, and sometimes manipulating our actions and attitudes.
What are emotions?
Because we are this, we have the ability to transcend self-interest and lose ourselves in something larger than ourselves.
What are conditional hive creatures?
Every semester Professor Low asks her students to pray for this.
What is snow?
Statements about things that should be done.
What are policy claims?
This is the final step in the writing process.
What is reflection?
What is established ethos?
When our brains think this, we look for a reason to doubt a claim in order to dismiss it.
What is must?
Professor Low's favorite musical artist. (Two possible answers).
Who are Bruce Springsteen and/or Yo-Yo Ma?
People with common interests, goals, vocabulary, and processes of inquiry that have specific ways to make knowledge and get stuff done.
What are discourse communities?
In planning, you think about moments that invite us to communicate with others in a way that's appropriate or fitting for the moment, also known as this.
What is a rhetorical situation?
What is argument?
Overcoming our tendency to stick to our sides, perspectives and arguments, we must start with some praise and a sincere expression of interest and understanding.
What is find common ground?
How long Professor Low has been teaching Writing 150.
What is 7 years or 7.5?