GLOSSARY
Academic Argument
"any of the many ways by means of which people try to convince others of something and is inquiry based" (WAW 885)
What is genre?
"categories of text" (890)
The particular circumstance of a given instance of communication or discourse" (WAW 897)
What is a rhetorical situation
"A ___ is a group of individuals bound by a common interest who communicate through approved channels and whose discourse is regulated" (WAW 548)
What is discourse community
"A group of people who share a common object and motive over time, as well as the wide range of tools they use together to act on that object and realize the motive" (WAW 398)
What is activity theory
Claim
"A claim is an assertion that a writer tries to convince his or her readers of" (WAW 887)
"how and why particular writing does (or does not) work depends on who the people are and where they come from" (WAW 11)
What is prior knowledge
"The circumstances that give rise to the exigence" (WAW 897)
What is context
"Writers should select their vocabulary carefully and use it wisely" (WAW 327)
"any ongoing, object-directed, historically conditioned, dialectically structured, tool-mediated human interaction" (WAW 398)
"factors that limit or otherwise influence the persuasive strategies available to the rhetor" (WAW 888)
Finish the sentence
"Every writing situation has it own ____ and writers must learn them in order to use writing effectively" (WAW 11)
What are rules
"The originator of the communication---its speaker or writer" (WAW 897)
"___ influences textual production and, in so doing, guides the development of the writer" (WAW 549)
What are community expectations
I do all my discussion posts for ENC1102 because I can further my knowledge of writing studies.
Exigence
"the need or reason for a given action or communication" (WAW 890)
"___ shared expectations among some group(s) of people" (WAW 513)
"I went to Starbucks because I needed coffee"
What is exigence
"A ____ shares assumptions about what objects are appropriate for examination and discussion" (WAW 548)
"____ one way of attempting to manage or minimize these conflicts within activity systems" (WAW 400)
What are rules
Rhetoric
"the study or performance of human interaction and communication or the product(s) of that interaction and communication" (WAW 896)
"Genres are types of texts that are recognizable to readers and writers and that meet the needs of the ______" (WAW 891)
What are rhetorical situations
"The rhetorical situation is a moment in a larger rhetorical ____, the network of relationships among rhetors in the situation" (WAW 898)
"In the term discourse communities, the focus is on _____ and _____" (WAW 321)
What are texts and language
"The term ___ describes a type of relationship in which aspects of a process, transaction, or system are mutually dependent" (WAW 398)
What is dialectically structured