Readings!
This reading served as a pivotal turning point for the Civil Rights movement.
What is "A Letter from Birmingham Jail"?
This part of the triangle refers to the emotional appeals a writer might make.
What is pathos?
This fallacy exists when a relatively insignificant first event is suggested to lead to a more significant event, which in turn leads to a more significant event, and so on, until some ultimate, significant event is reached, but with each step it becomes more and more improbable. Many events are usually present in this fallacy, but only two are actually required -- usually connected by “the next thing you know...”
What is Slippery Slope fallacy?
This type of exercise can help you formulate thoughts before you even start drafting a paper.
What is Pre-Writing?
This is Prof. Vanderlip's favorite color.
What is purple?
This reading chronicled the plight of a young woman who lost her sight and hearing at eighteen months.
What is "The Day Language Came into my Life"?
This part of the rhetorical triangle refers to the evidence a writer might introduce to persuade the audience.
What is logos?
This fallacy occurs when using an alleged authority as evidence in your argument when the authority is not really an authority on the facts relevant to the argument.
What is False Authority Fallacy?
This part of a paper should serve as a roadmap, and give the reader a clear sense of where the paper is going.
What is a thesis statement?
This is Prof. Vanderlip's favorite cookie.
What is a snickerdoodle?
This reading chronicled a young African American's journey to literacy while incarcerated.
What is "Learning to Read"?
This part of the triangle refers to the credibility the author builds within the writing?
What is ethos?
A form of argument and an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent.
What is a Straw Man Fallacy?
This part of the writing process requires you to globally reconstruct your paper (if you do it right).
What is revision?
This is Prof. Vanderlip's favorite Thanksgiving food.
What is green bean casserole?
This reading paired the writer's journey with a metaphor about a superhero.
What is "Superman and Me?"
This is what a text has when it has timeliness.
What is kairos?
A kind of fallacy that is an irrelevant topic introduced in an argument to divert the attention of listeners or readers from the original issue.
What is a Red Herring?
This type of text uses multiple modes.
What is multimodal?
This is Prof. Vanderlip's favorite wrestling celebrity.
Who is John Cena?
This essay used a double negative in it's title to prove a point about language use.
What is "Our Language Prejudices Don't Make No Sense"?
This actor/athlete has been used a lot as a way to give brands credibility, but their endorsements typically fall under the "false authority" fallacy.
Who is Shaquille O'Neal?
A fallacious argument that concludes that a proposition must be true because many or most people believe it, often concisely encapsulated as: "If many believe so, it is so."
What is the Bandwagon Fallacy?
These are the five modes within multimodal texts.
What are linguistic, spatial, aural, visual and gestural?
This is what Prof. Vanderlip is getting her PhD in.
What is Creative Writing?