Revising Techniques
Words and phrases like these are intentionally ambiguous because they simultaneously mean too much and nothing specifically.
What is weasel words?
A writing technique for integrating collected tape into a cohesive podcast.
What is 'writing in and out of tape'?
This late-60s television show has been adapted, revamped, and brought to the big screen many times, but remains your instructors most nostalgic delight.
What is Scooby Doo?
This kind of wording is totalizing and makes sweeping generalizations.
What is absolute wording?
This technique preserves your thought process while reading a text/article, even though it can make for a messy copy.
What is annotation?
This seemingly simple word can be either omitted or relative, depending on the clause it proceeds.
What is "that"?
Implementing a source is a lot like this social situation (metaphorically speaking).
What is bringing a new friend to a party?
Your instructor is an animal lover, but owns this kind of house pet.
What is a cat?
Meaning to try or attempt this word finds it's origins in Old French of the 15th century.
What is essay?
A collection of essays/short works by many authors compiled by one or more editors under a single topic.
What is an anthology?
This revision technique is your instructor's favorite method and she's been know to practice it dozens of times during her writing process.
What is reading aloud?
Dropping a quote without introducing or explaining the quote's relevance is also known by this colloquial term within our course.
What is Road Kill?
When titling more playful pieces of writing, your instructor likes to implement this method.
What is tasteful puns/word play?
This genre describes writing in the form of a letter.
What is Epistolary?
A set of urban design techniques used for social control and the manipulation of a body's placement and abilities within society.
What is hostile architecture?
This point of view in writing demands the reader relate to or imagine themselves as in the position you suggest through your writing. One must consider their intended audience if they decide to use this perspective.
What is second person perspective?
This source integration technique uses the work of another scholar to back up your own argument.
What is authorizing?
In a writing workshop we should all strive to be this kind of reader.
What is a generous reader?
The branch of philosophical study is concerned with the study of being.
What is ontology?
The exploratory essay has been said to emerge from this period of European history in response to cultural shifts towards the act of discovery.
What is the Renaissance period?
Sentences with 'hidden doers' leave the object of the sentence in the subject position in the standard Subject-Verb-Object structure. This is referred to as writing in this kind of voice.
What is passive voice?
A method of scholarly communication by which academics of similar fields discover new and related sources for study. AKA how scholars talk to each other within their writing.
What is in-text citation, bibliographies, end notes, works cited?
This writer of Hello Cruel World is a gender theorist and activist and once said "You are worthy and capable of finding a way to live your life just the way you really are."
Who is Kate Bornstein?
A system of ways of saying (writing), doing, believing, and valuing is referred to as this vocabulary term.
HINT: Heilker refers to is as genres
What is Discourse?
This famous writer of the 16th century is often referred to as "the father of the essay."
Who is Michel de Montaigne?