Writing Tips
This sentence type can add to your sophistication to your thesis statement IF done correctly.
What is the use of a subordinating conjunction?
The acronym that helps us remember the rhetorical situation.
What is SPACECAT?
This is the baseline amount of sources you need in your synthesis argument.
What is 3?
These are the amount of sources you have for argument.
What is 0?
These are at least 3 types of strategies (verbs) we can focus on.
What are contrasting, comparing, emphasizing, questioning, represents, etc.?
What is because, but, so?
These are what SPACECAT stands for.
What are Speaker, Purpose, Audience, Context, Exigence, Choices, Appeal, Tone?
True or false: You can reuse sources, only if you have introduced 3 different ones throughout.
These are the types of evidence types you can use during your argument essay.
What is historical, scientific, cultural pieces of evidence. What are current events and personal experience?
These are some rhetorical choices writers can utilize to create a strategy.
What is specific diction, imagery, sentence structure/syntax, Allusion, repetition, rhetorical modes/organizational choices, shifts. etc.
When beginning the shift to analysis of evidence, this sentence type can help you add sophistication and push our thinking and commentary.
What is By + gerund?
This is what we write about when we write about rhetorical analysis.
What is purpose and strategies/choices?
GST and TSG can help us craft which paragraphs in our argument?
What is the introduction and conclusion?
When using personal experience, you should remember to write with this in mind.
What is imagery, vivid description and/or figurative language?
Combine the following sentences to create a deeper, contextualized sentence.
The king gave an empowered speech earlier this week.
King Charles is the king of England.
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This sentence type can add some context or information to a topic when we write an introduction or in any other paragraph.
What is an appositive phrase?
Addressing the social environment or popular thinking during a text's time period adds to which criteria of your rubric?
What is sophistication?
An idea should lead which sentence within a body paragraph?
What is the topic sentence?
When creating an analysis/commentary about our evidence, we should consider this about our evidence. Shout out to Ms. McChane :)
What are limitations and implications?
True or false: All essays need a formal introduction.
FALSE! Only Synthesis and Argument need the full GST. Rhetorical Analysis can just be your thesis statement.
Combine the following sentences to create a complex idea using a subordinating conjunction.
Some people believe the sky is red.
Scientists have proven that the sky is blue.
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What part of speech can we utilize to incorporate a strategy within our topic sentences? What are some examples?
What is a verb? **Examples**
This sentence type is useful in addressing the counterclaim.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
In order to go BACK to purpose and to get your line of reasoning figured out, using language from this part of your essay works is a good choice.
Revise the following sentence to utilize the active voice.
Source F is proving that without the limitations Source B discusses, the feasibility of win energy does not exist.
Source F proves that without the limitations Source B discusses, the feasibility of win energy does not exist.