Reading Rainbow
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What's that word?
Essay Fax
Hook 'Em
100

The title of our next (current) book, and the author

What is How You Say It and Kinzler?
100

The authors name

What is Adam Aleksic? 

100

The act of exchanging meaning through language or nonverbal transaction

What is Communication?

100

This term refers to the primary thing that you are basing the essay around (one word)

What is a variable or identity variable? 

100

The name of our fuzzy friend, who has long horns, and orange/white spots

What is Bevo? 

Fun Fact: The first Bevo ever was turned into burgers and eaten!

200

This concept refers to the "masculine-ness", "feminine-ness", or something in-between, that results from the things people do, say, and general vibe they give off

What is gender performativity?

200

The practice of using numbers in the place of letters. Popularized by the hacker group Anonymous.

What is L33tSp34k?

200

What we discuss in this class as the verbal unit of measurement

What is an utterance? 

200

The place in your paper where the transcript goes

What is the Appendix?

200

The name of this university tune is played during touchdowns at football games 

What is Texas Fight?

300

A concept coined by Deborah Tannen, in which women in the workplace face competing expectations, ultimately placing them in a: _______

What is a double bind?

300
The age variable we use as a label for social cohorts

What is generation?

300
Two words that describe the cycle of: influencers posting material online, viewers engaging with the material, the algorithm boosting the material, creators making more, more people engaging with the material, etc. 
What is the Engagement Treadmill?
300

The order that Emily suggests paragraphs are best organized around

What is Topic sentence, explanation, source, and movie/show data

300

The Interim Dean of The Moody College of Communication

Who is Dr. Anita Vangelisti?

400

The language spoken widely across Central and Eastern Europe for over a thousand years, until World War II

What is Yiddish?

400

The culture that popular slang words like "slay" derive from

What is Ballroom Culture?

400

The term used to describe a type of tentative language in which a sentence ends with a question, and allegedly signals low status in the message sender

What is a tag?

400

The form of research inquiry that this essay is inspired by, involving the examination of naturalistic speech

What is Conversation Analysis?

400

The year that the University of Texas was founded

What is 1883?

500

The three word framework used to guide reviews of others' work

What is Describe, Evaluate, Suggest?

500

The name of the author's social media channel

What is Etymology Nerd?
500

Term that highlights discrepancies between unlike others and similar to us people

What is Normative Fit?

500

The section on the final rubric which refers to the cohesiveness, and overall sensibility of arguments and language in the essay

What is Clarity?

500

This contraption is a robot, created and run by a student let organization on campus. You may see this robot accompanied by sitting students, lounging their way down the Yellow Brick Road. 

What is Couch Bot or Couch Robot?