Rhetorical Moves
The rhetorical appeal signifying the author's credibility
What is ethos?
The first basic characteristic for a discourse community according to John Swales is that the group must have a...
What is a common goal?
This is another name for the conventions of a genre
What is a rhetorical move?
This is normally something that occurs at the end of your introduction paragraph
What is a thesis statement?
Our course motto.
What is "you are here"?
A form of persuasion that appeals to the audience's sense of logic or reason
What is logos?
A DC possesses and uses one or more of these in the communicative furtherance of its goals.
What is genre?
This allows you to take skills you learn in one genre and apply it to another
What is writing transfer?
This is a writing technique that helps with your organization.
What is an outline?
This allegedly haunted place is said to be the center of the pentagram here in Athens.
What is Wilson Hall?
A form of persuasion that appeals to the emotions of the audience.
What is pathos?
This discourse community is constrained to one general area.
What is a local discourse community?
A group of people communicating with each other in order to find and produce knowledge. (Not a discourse community)
What is a research community?
This is the term we use when referring to the way that writers and scholars enter into a preexisting conversation about any given topic.
What is the Burkean Parlor?
This citation is utilizing this style: Lake, Peter. "Hamlet with the confessional and succession politics." Hamlet's Choice: Religion and Resistance in Shakespeare's Revenge Tragedies, 2020, pp. 73-97. DOI: https://doi-org.proxy.library.ohio.edu/10.12987
What is MLA citation style?
A rhetorical appeal that is used "at the right place and right time."
What is kairos? (It's recognizing when/where an argument should be made so that it isn't a waste of time)
This type of discourse community can span across a region, a nation, and internationally.
What is a focal discourse community?
This occurs in any genre when at least one person is using a form of communication to modify the perspective of the audience.
What is a rhetorical situation?
This is the thing that you must always keep in mind when writing an essay in order to determine how you write it.
What is the audience?
This test is often used to help you figure out if a source is credible or not.
What is the CRAAP test? (Currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose)
The person who came up with the rhetorical appeals
Who is Aristotle?
This characteristic of a DC is defined as rhythms of activity or a sense of history and value systems used as criteria for evaluating what is good and less good within the group.
What are horizons of expectation?
The names of the 5 genres that you wrote/are writing for this class.
What is the open letter, rhetorical analysis, genre analysis, discourse community analysis, and closing reflection?
The art of persuasion.
What is rhetoric?
This is the woman who was found dead in a secluded area of the asylum and left behind a stain on the floor where her body was.
Who is Margaret Schilling?