Voice
The preeminent scholar on using voice in writing.
Who is Peter Elbow?
Use this strategy when the original author is a respected authority on a subject.
What is quoting?
When an entire essay is ghostwritten, showing the intent to deceive.
What is fraud?
Use this strategy when the details from the source you're using are important but the author's way of conveying those details isn't memorable.
What is paraphrasing?
The deadline for your Researched Argument ROUGH Draft
Friday, March 3rd, by class time
The word choices you make while writing.
What is diction?
You introduce a quote in an essay using this strategy.
What is a signal phrase (or, attribution phrase)?
When you borrow ideas and information without giving credit to the original author.
What is insufficient citation?
The 3 primary strategies for borrowing words and ideas from other scholars or experts.
What are quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing?
The required number of credible sources I want to see in your Researched Argument Final Draft.
5 (or more!)
Examples of this include statistics, anecdotes, and descriptive information (don't overthink it!).
What are details?
An expression of the writer's attitude towards the subject or audience of an essay.
What is tone?
Using your own previously written work in a different context than when you originally wrote it.
What is self-plagiarism?
Stating the main idea or entirety of a source succinctly.
What is summarizing?
The minimum required page count for your Researched Argument Final Draft.
6 full pages, double-spaced
Creating word pictures using the 5 senses to enrich your writing.
What is imagery?
The explanation that directly follows a quote in an essay.
What is a lead out?
Taking another person's words or phrases and stringing them into your own sentences without proper attribution.
What is patchwork writing?
When you leave the reader with unexplained or unhelpful information that is not yours.
What is "dropping quote bombs"?
The reading homework for the Monday after Spring Break.
What is "Composing Multimodal Texts?" (pp. 137-152)?
Audience and context determines this in your writing, or, how you put together sentences.
What is syntax?
This punctuation is considered inappropriate in an academic context.
What is an exclamation point?!
A type of lazy writing that shows a reliance on someone else's words rather than your own.
What is excessive repetition?
An example for when you don't have to acknowledge or cite a source in your essay.
Common knowledge, facts found everywhere, or your own unpublished research.
When do my office hours take place this semester?
1:00-2:30 pm, on Mondays and Wednesdays but...
They're now By Appointment Only! (Because nobody shows up)