Unit 1
What does arduous mean?
It means extremely difficult to achieve.
Counterintuitive
Different from what is expected or seems correct
What is incumbency?
State of currently occupying an office
Definition of unrequited
Not returned or repaid in kind
Definition of subservient
Having a role of lesser importance; subordinate
Evidence in text
Evidence provides support for opinions, central ides, and claims.
What is figurative language?
Figure of speech clarifies one item in terms of another on a nonliteral level. Some examples: Similes, metaphors, and hyperbole.
Some text structures are....
problem-and-solution, chronological, or time order, cause-and-effect, etc.
Themes and Purposes US Document style
Themes are A government’s power must have limits and purposes are themes are considered the purposes of the people who wrote the document
Seminal in US text
A foundational document that provides readers with information that has some kind of historical impact or significance regarding the formation and development of the United States.
Style and implied meaning in an objective statement
The style relates to tasks, purposes, and the audience
The different types of evidence are......
Opinion, facts, data, etc.
Why do you revise thesis statements and main ideas?
You revise them so you can make it better and make sure it goes with your main focus and topic
Argument in texts
A type of writing that emphasizes logic, specifically claims, reasons, evidence and, counterclaims
Conclusions in a essay
They include restatement of the thesis and additional closure elements
Explicit and implicit meaning
Explicit: directly stated
Implicit: understood despite not being directly stated
The Rhetorical triangle
Message, Audience, Writer/Speaker
Ethos and Pathos
Ethos: When authors emphasize their own credibility to convince the audience of the claim
Pathos: When the author triggers the commonly shared emotions in the audience to convince the audience of the claim
Examples of Rhetorical Features...
Allusion, antithesis, diction, irony, parallelism, syntax, and understatement
How many elements are there in the chain of legal reasoning
5
Evaluating evidence
It needs to be relevant and supportive
What's plagiarism?
It's when you steal someone else's work without giving them credit
What should you lookout for when revising for content
It need's to support the thesis and it needs to be clear and complete
What are counterclaims?
they are claims that run counter or in the opposite direction to your stated position on the issue
What does editing you work do?
It allows you to fix spelling, usage, and punctation.