Kickin' it with Ritzenberg and Mendelsohn
Out of Cite, Out of Mind
Mighty Writerly Moves
U-dub G.O.A.T.
100
This skill refers to one's understanding of the conventions of a given genre.
What is Genre Awareness?
100
Spot the following Citation error:
Jane Jacobs. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Random House, 1961.
Name order.
100
A tension, dissonance, or gap in understanding that, when made sense of, advances our understanding.
What is a Scholarly Problem?
100
Our first essay assignment was called a "_____-_____ Analysis" essay.
What is Single-Text?
200
Ch. 9, "Feedback," describes these two different types of Feedback Styles. Our course embraces one of them, and eschews the other.
What are Prescriptive and Descriptive?
200
Spot the following Citation error:
...in which he wrote "and then I won Jeopardy." (Anderson 4)
Wrong placement of period.
200
Theorized by Mikhail Epstein, this concept combines the surprising and the provable.
What is The Interesting?
200
This is the number of unexcused absences allowed before affecting one's course grade.
What is 2 unexcused absences?
300
These four categories of Sources comprise the types of sources typically used in a Researched Conversation Essay.
What are Object, Context, Critical, and Theory?
300
Spot the following Citation error:
Philosopher and novelist Albert Camus famously claimed that "One must imagine Sisyphus happy," which, though not directly related, carries interesting parallels to W.B. Yeats' notion that "the best lack all conviction, while the worst / are full of passionate intensity" (Yeats).
No citation for Camus.
300
The act of bringing together multiple sources to develop a concept that any one of the sources couldn't convey individually.
What is Synthesis?
300
Someone Prof. Anderson has called "the goat" of Writing Studies, in 1980, this researcher studied habits of expert scholarly writers, compared to habits of beginning writers.
Who is Nancy Sommers.
400
Every chapter begins with a story of a scholar working in their field. These opening sections of each chapter are called "___________."
What is Scholar's Story?
400
Spot the following Citation error:
Morreall, John. The Good, the Bad, and the Funny: An Ethics of Humor. "The Southern Journal of Philosophy," vol. 58, no. 4, Dec. 2020, pp. 632–47.
Essay and chapter titles should be in quotations. Journal titles / book / film titles in italics.
400
Theorized by Linda Flower, this prose style involves metacognition on a deep level, in which writers place themselves in the shoes of their reader.
What is Reader-Based Prose?
400
Professor Anderson owns this breed of dog.
500
In Ch. 4, "Claims," this swashbuckling, famous 19th century author is compared to V from V for Vendetta.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
500
These are the four things we cite.
Quotes, Paraphrases, any Intellectual Property, and anything not Common Knowledge.
500
These are two "tests" a writer can deploy in order to test their draft/paragraphs for Complexity.
What are the Shuffle Test and the Transitions Test?
500
In my alphebatized class roster, these two student's names are the first and last entries.
11:40: Zara Allen + Cheryl Wong
2:40: Elfido Alvarez-Torres + Mel Yu
5:40: Ethan Abebe + Alex Zhang