Outcomes
Readings
Analysis
MLA
100

This outcome advocates for students to "focus on a purpose appropriate to the writer’s rhetorical situation" 

What is rhetorical awareness? 

100

"Squinting in terror, you can barely make out the silhouettes of backlit forms as they move in front of the fire, casting their shadows onto your wall." 

What is Jason Brubaker's adaptation of Plato's Cave

100

This appeal analyzes a text based on the emotions the author used in their writing

What is pathos? 

100

This type of citation usually is formatted like: Freire, Paulo. "Chapter 2: The 'Banking' Concept of Education." Pedagogy of the Oppressed. 1970. Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos, Continuum, 2000.

What is an MLA citation? 

200

This outcome advocates for students to "organize ideas, claims, and support according to audience and purpose" 

What is the composing process? 

200

"I experienced the world in that time as a gift economy, "goods and services" not purchased but received as gifts from the earth." 

What is Robin Wall Kimmerer's "The Gift of Strawberries"? 

200

This appeal analyzes a text based on the facts and statistics given.

What is logos? 

200

This type of citation usually looks like: "Quote" (Brandy 56).

What is an in-text citation? 

300

This outcome advocates for students to "develop academic integrity by accurately summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, and citing a variety of texts and perspectives" 

What is information literacy? 

300

"Because teens grew up in a world in which the internet has always existed, many adults assume that youth automatically understand new technologies." 

What is danah boyd's "Are Today's Youth Digital Natives"? 

300

A process to better understand text through looking deeply into the way the words are phrased, who is writing it, who is reading it, and the general context around it.

What is rhetorical analysis? 

300

This type of indent is usually found in the works cited page 

What is a hanging indent? 

400

This outcome advocates for students to "integrate personal authority within a larger conversation."

What is critical thinking? 

400

"Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor."

What is Paulo Freire's "The Banking Concept of Education"?

400
This appeal analyzes a text based on the timeliness of which it was released 

What is kairos? 

400

This type of header is usually found at the top left of papers 

What is name, the teacher name, the class name, and the date? 

500

This outcome advocates for students to "recognize the relationships among language, knowledge, and power in texts and research" 

What is critical thinking? 

500

"Reduction in biomass passage occurred across the eastern United States (Fig. 2, C and D), where migration is dominated by large numbers of temperate and boreal-breeding songbirds; we observed no consistent trend in the Central or Pacific flyway regions (Fig. 2, B to D, and table S5)" 

What is the Kenneth Rosenberg's "Decline of the North American Avifauna"? 

500

This appeal analyzes a text based on the reasons (or the cause, the catalyst, inciting event) of why it was written 

What is exigence? 

500

The full name for the acronym "MLA"

What is the Modern Language Association?