The Rhetorical Appeals
Rhetorical appeal based on facts, figures, statistics, and organization
What is logos?
Discerning the available means of persuasion in any given situation
What is rhetoric?
Using a broad overview of someone else's work--requires a citation, usually the author's name in the sentence or in the parenthetical citation.
What is summarizing?
An argument structure that moves the audience through four distinct stages--facts, definition, evaluation, and proposal
What is stasis theory?
A source directed toward a general audience with an emphasis on clarity, accessibility, and engaging the readers while assuming little background knowledge
What is a popular source?
Rhetorical appeal based on the emotions and values of the audience
What is pathos?
The main argument
What is the thesis?
Putting a specific argument (like a page or paragraph or key concept) from someone else's work into your own words--requires a citation, usually the author's name and the page number (if available) in the sentence or in the parenthetical citation.
What is paraphrasing?
A critical thinking strategy that uses who, what, where, when, how, and why to deepen our ideas about a topic
What is the six modes of questioning?
A source written by and for professionals within a field of work or hobby, specific to an area of knowledge but still accessible for most audiences
What is a professional or trade source?
Rhetorical appeal based on the credibility of the speaker
What is ethos?
To inform, to entertain, and/or to persuade
What is the purpose?
Using the exact words from someone else's work--requires a citation, usually the author's name (and the page number, if available) in the sentence or in the parenthetical citation.
What is quoting?
Provides a framework for understanding arguments by breaking the text down into the thesis, purpose, audience, and exigeny
What is rhetorical analysis?
A source written by scholars for scholars with an emphasis on original research and rigorous review
What is a scholarly source?
The relationship between the three rhetorical appeals that shows their dependence on each other to create a balanced argument
What is the rhetorical triangle?
The group of people to whom the argument is directed
Who is the audience?
Adhering to the highest standards of honesty in one's academic work--including citing all work that is not one's own and producing work unique to each class (i.e., not reusing material for multiple classes)
What is academic integrity?
An argument structure that begins by stating the audience's position, then states the writer's position, and then attempts to reach common ground
What is a Rogerian argument?
A searchable collection of library resources
What is a database?
The good person speaking well
Who is the rhetorician (as defined by Quintillian)?
The urgency of the argument; why it matters at this particular time
What is the exigency?
In-text citation style for MLA format, typically includes the author's last name and page number if available, but not the date
What are parenthetical citations?
An argument that moves from denotation to connotation and asserts the context for words and concepts
What is a definitional argument or extended definition?
The process of vetting scholarly sources, where experts in the field (usually anonymously) review other scholars' work for accuracy and rigor
What is (blind) peer-review?