Synthesis & Argument
Synthesis Defined
Sophistication
Socratic Sources 1
Socratic Sources 2
100

According to the rubric, the thesis statement must be this.

What is defensible?

100
You need to provide this consistently for your three source references, according to the middle band of the rubric.

What is warrant or commentary?

100

A bold statement, a quote, a statistic, a thought-provoking question are all examples of these.

What is a grabber?

100

A recipe that Joan Didion wrote down in her notebook.

What is sauerkraut?

100

He was famous for many contributions, including aphorisms.

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

200

These words indicate the organization of the piece.

What are transitional words?

200

One of the sources will be this.

What is an image?

200

This immature phrase needs to be reworded with something more sophisticated.

What is "in the text it says"?

200

Maya Angelou said that language alone separates us from ____________.

Who are the lower animals?

200

His book is still considered the most famous self-help book.

Who is Dale Carnegie?

300

This is what you create when you explain how your evidence supports your claim.

What is warrant?

300

Name three types of images.

What are photos, drawings, political cartoons, schedules, graphs, maps, agendas, polls, routes, etc.?

300

The rubric accounts for four varieties of sophistication:  complexities, vivid language, broader context, and _________ ____________.

What are rhetorical choices?

300

Marcel Marceau talked about communicating through silence.  This seems fitting, since he was a _____.

What is a mime?

300

Carnegie believed that doing this was an unsuccessful way to communicate with people.

What is criticism?

400

This is the only difference between the argument and synthesis.

What are provided sources?

400

The number of minutes suggested to write a Synthesis essay.

What is 55?

400

A little story, or ____ , can make for a nice grabber.

What is an anecdote?

400

The mistress of the house was teaching Frederick Douglass to read and write until this force stopped her.

Who is her husband?

400

List two of the categories Ericsson gives in "The Ways We Lie."

What are The White Lie, Facades, Ignoring the Plain Facts, Deflecting, Omission, Stereotypes and Cliches, Groupthink, Out-and-out lies, Dismissal, Delusion?

500

Rhetor, Purpose, and Audience comprise this shape and theory.

What is the Rhetorical Triangle?

500
This is the rhetorical appeal that you should rely on the least in your essay response.

What is pathos?

500

List two transitions that show sequence without a number.

What are next, then, following, now, after, subsequently, finally, consequently, previously, thus, therefore, hence?

500

The reason teenaged Amy Tan called the stockbroker.

What is pretending to be her mother (due to the language barrier)?

500

S/he feels that we should overcome nervousness when we communicate because we need to teach the important message that we know.

Who is Kamala Harris?