Key Terms
What is the definition of writing transfer?
The ability to take writing skills developed in one context/genre and transfer them to a new context/genre.
Name the three corners and the center of the rhetorical triangle (4 parts to this answer)
Writer, Text, Audience, Purpose
What four pieces of information do you need in the header of a paper formatted in MLA style?
Student's Name
Instructor's Name
Course
Date
What is a specific group within a genre called?
Subgenre
What is a folocal discourse community?
A discourse community in which members are focused on the same topic and occupy the same geographical location.
What is the definition of discourse community?
A group of people that communicate with one another to work towards a set of common goals.
Persuading someone by appealing to their emotions or values
Once you have created all the citations for your sources, in what order should you list them on your Works Cited page?
Alphabetical Order
What do we call genre features that may show up in some rhetorical contexts, but not others?
Optional or Situational Features
What is a focal discourse community?
A discourse community that is focused on the same topic, but they do not have to be in the same geographical location.
What is the definition of genre?
A way to classify pieces of writing based on their characteristics.
What is the definition of logos?
Persuading someone by appealing to their sense of logic or reason.
When you do you provide an in-text citation of a source?
Any time you are quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing ideas that are not your own.
What are the two types of characteristics used to classify a piece of writing within a particular genre?
Form and Content
What is a local discourse community?
A discourse community in which members occupy the same geographical space, but do not have to all be focused on the same topic.
What is the definition of rhetoric?
The art of persuasion
What is the definition of ethos?
What is a primary source?
Any source that you're analyzing as an example or artifact.
How does a genre get created?
When a similar writing situation comes up repeatedly, meaning that new writers draw upon past examples until required genre features are established
According to Swales, what are silential relations?
Things that don't get explained because members of the community are expected to know them (but an outsider might not).
What is the definition of rhetorical situation?
The context in which a piece of writing is created
What are the two types of audiences you can have on the rhetorical triangle?
Intended/Unintended or Primary/Secondary
What is a secondary source?
Any source that is either...
1. Analyzing one or more primary sources.
2. Not being analyzed as an example/artifact itself.
What is the definition of a rhetorical move?
A particular "action" or way of communicating with a reader in your writing so that you can create a certain effect on them (and thus persuade them).
In any order, name the six characteristics that Swales says every DC must have.
1. A set of common goals
2. A place/mechanism to communicate
3. Ways of collecting feedback
4. Genres of writing
5. A lexis or vocabulary
6. Varying levels of expertise