The Academic Mindset
What is the academic mindset?
The academic mindset is an array of approaches to learning that will help you succeed with all of the reading, writing, and researching you’ll need to do in college and after. These approaches to learning are called, “dispositions.”
What was the maximum word count a summary could be in your Segment One Project?
250 words
What is exigence?
The "spark" that ignites the rhetoric, or the event that inspires the author to create their message.
What does it mean for an argument to be responsive?
An argument is responsive when it is both responding to something and seeking a response.
What are the four rhetorical appeals?
Ethos, logos, pathos, and Kairos
What are skills?
Skills are abilities or competences, usually developed over time.
Name three things you must include in the first sentence of your summary.
Title, author, some info about the author, publication, medium, year, the main gist
What is the context of Ned Fulmer leaving the Try Guys?
Ned Fulmer engaged in an unethical relationship with his employee, which led to the Try Guys cutting ties with him.
What is the difference between the rhetorical characteristics and the rhetorical functions?
The rhetorical characteristics describes how an argument is distinct. The rhetorical functions describes what an argument does in the world.
What is the difference between invented ethos and situated ethos?
What are dispositions?
Dispositions include things like preferences, inclinations, tendencies, and attitudes that lead a person to think or act in a particular way.
What does it mean to keep your summary author-focused?
Writing about how the author posed and organized their argument, using strong action verbs.
What is the difference between genre and medium?
Genre is more specifically about the format or mode of the piece of rhetoric, while medium is broader and about how it's published and shared.
What does contingent issues mean? What is an example of a contingent issue?
What is an enthymeme?
Short phrases that are widely known and agreed upon by the audience.
What is reciprocity?
Communicating needs and problems, seeking assistance, being receptive and responsive to others, cultivating learning relationships
Name two common features of a summary.
Mention title and full name of author in the first sentence, but use the author's last name for the remaining summary. Use the third person. Use the simple present tense. Avoid opinionated or judgmental statements.
Name all eight characteristics of the rhetorical situation.
Exigence, rhetor, audience, purpose, context, time, genre, medium
What are the six characteristics or rhetoric?
Planned, adapted to an audience, reveals human motives, responsive, seeking persuasion, addressing contingent issues
What is the difference between invented Kairos and situated Kairos?
Invented Kairos occurs when the rhetor creates a sense of urgency. For situated Kairos, the urgency already exists within the issue (Climate Change, elections)
Name all ten characteristics of the academic mindset.
Name 5 of the 20 habits of a highly effective reader.
Reconstruct the context, determine your purpose for reading, look over the whole text, figure out the genre, annotate, take notes, read beyond the first pages, ask questions, find the gist, identify main ideas, pick out key passages, read for details, but keep thinking about the big picture, look up words and track key terms, look for references to others' work, agree and disagree, know when to skim, know when to scan, reread, modulate your approach
What is the rhetorical situation?
The background elements of rhetoric. Or the stage where the rhetoric is performed.
What are the six functions of rhetoric?
Tests ideas, assists advocacy, distributes power, discovers facts, shapes knowledge, builds community
Name two characteristics of Logos.
Using examples, precedent, causal reasoning, enthymemes, or arranging the argument in a specific way.