Key Concepts
A source which is not peer reviewed and usually written for non-experts.
What is a popular source?
Two different ways to respond to counterarguments.
What is rebuttal/refutation and concession?
A grammatical unit containing a subject and a predicate.
What is a clause?
The formatting and citation style used in humanities courses.
What is MLA?
The president of CSU.
Who is Joyce McConnell?
Combining separate things, such as ideas, to form something new.
What is synthesis?
What is logos?
The formal grammatical term for For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, and So
What are coordinating conjunctions?
The title of the page in an MLA document which lists full citations for all sources cited in-text.
What is works cited?
A prefix describing something which is self-referential.
What is meta?
What Graff and Birkenstein compare writing to in They Say, I Say.
What is a conversation?
Persuading a reader by appealing to their emotions.
What is pathos?
Stating where information comes from in the text itself, rather than in a formal citation: "The author writes," "He argues," etc.
What is an author tag?
The second-highest grossing musical act in the world today, according to your Style and Mechanics quizzes.
Who is BTS?
A source, usually a journal article, which is written by experts for experts and goes through an extensive peer-review process.
What is a scholarly source?
The character or persona a writer establishes; usually, a credible persona.
What is ethos?
The only place where an ellipse should be placed in a quotation, according to formal academic writing conventions.
What is in the middle?
The two things which require in-text citations.
What are quotations and paraphrases?
A television show on which Stephen Hawking once appeared, according to your Style and Mechanics quizzes.
What is Star Trek?
The four components of the TREE model.
What are Thesis, Reasons, Evidence, and Explanation?
An element of formal argumentation: reasoning which explains how the evidence proves the claim.
What is a warrant? or What is a bridge?
The correct placement of the apostrophe in this sentence:
"The thief stole the womens jewelry."
What is between the 'n' and the 's' of 'womens'?
What appears in the in-text citation if the source is anonymous.
What is the title?
The first six digits of Pi.
What are 3.14159?