Text Structures
This text structure explains how something is done or how to perform or accomplish a specific task.
What is process analysis?
Eighner's preferred term for dumpster diving.
What is scavenging?
This highly structured analysis analyzes the content (the what), the delivery (the how), and the audience of a text or spoken discourse.
What is a rhetorical precis?
This is an educated guess, based on assumed information; a conclusion that makes sense because it is supported by evidence.
What is an inference?
In this writing strategy, we turn an abstract situation or claim into an immediate story that engages the emotions and imagination of the reader.
What is pathos?
This is the outcome of one or more occurrences.
What is an effect?
What Sherman Alexie used to learn to read.
What are comic books.
These are words within the text that allow the writer to smoothly move from one idea or paragraph to another.
What are transition words?
This type of information is understood but it is not stated.
What is implied information?
In this rhetorical appeal, our writing shows our reputation for honesty and expertise apart from the actual message of the piece.
What is ethos?
The three main purposes of expository texts.
What is to persuade, inform, or explain?
The issue Rodriguez discusses in Aria.
What is bilingual education (or being bilingual in American schools)?
Explain the mirroring process.
What is when you include information (anecdote, quote, shocking statement, etc) in the introductory paragraph, and refer back to it in the conclusion?
In your essay, this information is provided after information that you have included from other sources.
What is an in text (or parenthetical) citation?
The main point each body paragraph is making is defined as the...
What is the topic sentence?
In this type of text, the author tries to convince the reader to take a certain opinion or perform a certain action.
What is persuasive text?
This is the expository format Britt uses to explain people.
What is compare and contrast?
Of the four ways to write a thesis statement, this model is the most specific and descriptive.
What is a thesis with a concession and reasons?
This is a statement or information that can be proven or disproved.
What is a fact?
This form of writing requires us to investigate underlying factors or issues to determine how certain conditions may have developed.
What is causal analysis (or cause and effect)?
A good way to understand nonfictional text is to place events in a sequential order specifically based on overall time, which is also known as this.
What is chronological order?
This was the effect of the Green Paper on Mukherjee.
What is Canadians turned away from nontraditional immigrants, and she felt outcast (like her sister did in America). She experienced racism.
These are the four things we analyze when evaluating whether a website is credible. Explain each.
What is Currency, Reliability, Authority, and Point of View(Purpose)?
This is what we call the reason an author writes a text.
What is the author's purpose?
This is putting only the main ideas from a source into your own words using as few words as possible.
What is a summary?