Cohesion and Flow
This is an important element in writing created by words and phrases that signal relationships between ideas.
What are "transitions"?
Cut filler words:
“There are many ways in which professors can actually help students improve their writing.”
What is… “Professors can help students improve their writing in many ways”?
This rhetorical appeal relies on the credibility, expertise, or trustworthiness of the author.
A writer’s attitude and approach toward the subject, which usually comes through using style and word choice.
What is "tone"?
A brief, personal story that the author can open their writing with to humanize an issue and connect to the reader.!
What is a hook or opening anecdote (but can also be an example of "pathos" or "ethos").
What is the problem here:
“When Maya talked to Lena, she said the assignment was confusing.”
What is "unclear pronoun reference"?
A rhetorical appeal that uses logic and reasoning (ex: empirical data... a tight logical breakdown, etc).
This refers to what the writer wants the reader to do, think, or feel.
What is "purpose"?
Writers often repeat important terms or phrases and refer back to earlier ideas to create this quality in their texts.
What is "logical coherence"? (Will accept variation on this phrasing)
What's the problem here: “College writing is challenging it also helps you grow as a thinker.”
What is a "Run-on"?
This is a collection of elements around a text, such as intended audience, date, publication venue, and genre, that influences our interpretations and analysis of the text’s style, tone, and expectations.
What is "context"?
This type of analysis asks you to examine the recurring conventions, audience expectations, and communicative purposes of a text type—such as op-eds, lab reports, or social media posts—to understand how and why the text works the way it does.
What is "genre analysis"?
You notice a paragraph in an op-ed where sentences feel disconnected, and key ideas repeat unnecessarily. Name two strategies the author could use to improve cohesion and make the argument clearer.
What is... strategies like "transitional phrases" and "reverse outline"?
What's the problem: “I struggled with grammar; but I improved a lot this semester.”
What is a "semi-colon misuse"?
This is a potential objection or alternate perspective to the author’s claim, which anticipates naysayers.
What is "equivocation" or "counterargument"?
This is the skill of carefully evaluating claims, evidence, and reasoning before accepting them as true. !
What is "critical thinking"?
How would you revise this sentence: "The article argues climate change is real, the author uses statistics, there are also emotional stories included."
What is...anything that helps with the run-on and the logical organization?
What's the problem here: “Walking across campus, my backpack broke.”
What is a "dangling modifier"?
An op-ed that takes a one-sided, possibly aggressive position (trying to provoke, condemn, or even attack) is an example of this type of forcefully argumentative writing.
What is a "polemic argument"?
This term refers to the moment or situation that motivates the writer to write the text and often explains the “So what?”
What is "exigence"?