How Messages Persuade
Analyzing Images
Writing & Subject Matter
Writing As Problem-Solving
Writer As Reader
100
This rhetorical strategy can cause a reader to see a subject from one perspective only: the writer's.
What is angle of vision.
100
This visual analysis strategy has an entire theory behind it where different shades are associated with different emotions.
What is color.
100
These are the two major forms of writing. (7-8)
What are open- and closed-form prose.
100
Along with writing multiple drafts, this group practice is crucial to bettering your writing and allowing you to revise extensively.
What is peer review.
100
This sentence brings something new to readers and leaves room for disagreement.
What is a thesis statement.
200
In good writing, angle of vision does this.
What is works subtly to draw unsuspecting readers into the writer's spell so they will believe the writer's prose conveys the "whole picture."
200
This rhetorical/visual analysis strategy deals with vantage points, low angles, high angles, and front or rear views of images.
What is angle and orientation.
200
This is crucial to effective and persuasive closed-form prose.
What is an explicit thesis in the introduction that informs readers of the point of the whole essay.
200
This rhetorical strategy reflects the audience or reader as they are currently.
What is the mirror effect.
200
These sources have been vetted by experts in their particular field before publication.
What are peer reviewed sources.
300
This rhetorical strategy appeals to the character of the speaker or writer.
What is ethos.
300
This strategy of effective advertisement is a psychological and motivational strategy to associate a product with a target audience's dreams, hopes, fears, desires, and wishes.
What is the mirror and window effect.
300
These three elements are connected by good writers when they think rhetorically. (14)
What are audience, purpose, and genre.
300
This rhetorical analysis strategy reflects the audience or reader as they could be.
What is the window effect.
300
This is when the final draft of the second essay is due.
What is Thursday, November 9th.
400
Ursula used this rhetorical appeal when she told Ariel that "you can't get something for nothing."
What is logos.
400
This is identified by marketers in order to determine who will be interested in their product or service.
What is target audience.
400
This strategy allows you to record your thinking directly without worrying about grammar, spelling, organization, transitions, or other features of edited writing.
What is freewriting.
400
This writing process helps authors clarify audience and purpose.
What are multiple drafts.
400
These are signal phrases that allow you to distinguish between your own ideas and those from an author you are quoting or summarizing. (99)
What are attributive tags.
500
These are the two Disney videos we watched to practice identifying ethos, pathos, and logos.
What are "Poor Unfortunate Souls" and "Under the Sea."
500
This is a location where a Geico ad will be noticed by drivers.
What is a billboard.
500
This is where the Pemco Insurance commercial is more likely to be found.
What is on a city bus.
500
This is the day when the first draft of WP #2 is due.
What is Tuesday, October 24th.
500
This is the name of the reference librarian who met with us on Tuesday.
Who is Meg Grotti.