Rhetorical Analysis
A rhetorical analysis concerns:
A) What the argument is.
B) The content of the text.
C) How an argument is made.
C
Name the title of one reading from the AI unit.
"Ghosts"
"Confessions of a Viral AI Writer"
"What if We're All Self-Playing Harps?"
"Why AI Isn't Going to Make Art"
"An Age of Hyperabundance"
This font and size are required for correct MLA formatting.
Times New Roman, 12 pt.
This sentence introduces an essay's argument, clearly stating the writer's position/stance on a topic.
Thesis statement
Kira will always grant extensions for a project with these exceptions.
You ask over the weekend / the day an assignment is due.
The assignment is due for peer review.
This is what we call the intended reader or recipient of a given text.
Primary audience
"How I Spent My Plague Year Inside a Video Game" describes the author's experience playing this video game.
Fallout 76
This goes in the top right-hand corner of each page.
Last name and page number
Name three stages of the traditional writing process.
Per the syllabus, the Recast assignment is worth this percentage of your overall grade.
15%
Define "EXIGENCE"
The situation or problem that compels someone to make an argument; i.e. the "urgency" behind a piece of writing.
"Occasionally a date with a face blank as a sheet of paper asks you whether writers often become discouraged. Say that sometimes they do and sometimes they do. Say it's a lot like having polio."
"How to Become a Writer" by Lorrie Moore
This type of indentation is used in the Works Cited page / annotated bibliography.
Hanging indent
This "shape" from Picturing the Personal Essay involves "a horizontal movement through time" as well as "a vertical descent into meaning."
Dipping into the well
What is Kira's email address?
homshekk@mail.uc.edu
Describe the difference between genre and medium.
Genre is the form of your writing (a business letter, memo, report). A medium is the way in which a piece of writing is delivered (email versus a mailed paper copy, for example). Genre and medium are both determined by audience and purpose.
"Ghosts" is an example of this genre.
Creative Nonfiction (experimental / personal essay)
According to MLA guidelines, which of these in-text citations is correct?
A. (DuBois 23).
B. (DuBois, 23).
C. (DuBois 23.)
D. (DuBois, 23.)
A
"Of Unicorns: On My Little Pony" is an example of what shape from "Picturing the Personal Essay"
The whorl of reflection
the ability to read and write.
competence or knowledge in a specified area.
The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing is called this.
Rhetoric
This author wrote "What If We're All Self-Playing Harps."
This is the most common error in student papers.
Incorrect or absent indentation on the Works Cited page (and non-alphabetized sources!)
This process involves putting a passage from source material into your own words, slightly condensed.
Paraphrasing
How many weddings did Kira attend this semester?
Three