Writing as Person, Place, & Thing
When Chimamanda Adichie shares her childhood experience of only reading British books, she uses this appeal to connect emotionally with the audience.
What is pathos?
According to Jenae Cohn, this everyday object uses visual rhetoric through its octagonal shape and red color.
What is a stop sign?
Your professor just added to her little tribe at home. She now has _______ pets.
What is two?
This Latin phrase, central to Georgetown's Jesuit values, means "care for the whole person
What is Cura Personalis?
This type of research method involved observing community spaces, taking field notes, and analyzing what spaces reveal about power and belonging.
What is ethnographic observation/ethnography?
Kate McKinney Maddalena's article argued for the importance of using this pronoun in college writing, challenging the myth that academic writing should be objective.
A: What is "I" (first person)?
Before joining Georgetown, Professor Koulen was a PhD candidate at this university
What is the University of Houston?
According to Georgetown's values, the university is committed to this principle—addressing inequality and fairness in society.
What is social justice?
For your Unit 3 project, you created this type of activist publication—a DIY format historically used by marginalized communities to amplify voices and challenge dominant narratives.
What is a zine?
In "Learning to Read and Write," Frederick Douglass describes learning to write by doing this...
What is copying the letters in shipyard timber (or copying schoolboys' writing/having writing competitions)?
Your professor's new last name?
What is Holmes?
In our class, instead of earning points on individual assignments, you earn your grade through this type of grading system that emphasizes labor and meeting criteria.
What is contract grading (or labor-based grading)?
This is the Greek term for "the right or opportune moment"—considering WHEN to make an argument for maximum impact.
Ashley J. Holmes's reading from Week 6 discussed this type of writing, which aligns with your Major Assignment #2's goal of reaching Georgetown community members.
Public Writing for Social Change
According to antiracist assessment practices that informed our contract grading, this principle means we recognize that students come from diverse language(s) and cultural backgrounds, and we value those differences rather than penalizing them.
What is linguistic justice (or linguistic diversity/cultural pluralism)?
Your syllabus encouraged you to consider submitting your polished work to these TWO campus publications that reach the Georgetown community.
What are The Hoya and Georgetown Voice?
Analyze this scenario: During a graduation speech, a valedictorian (who has a 4.0 GPA) shares research about future job markets, tells an emotional story about their immigrant parents' sacrifices, and connects it to the significance of graduating during the school's 100th anniversary. Identify ALL FOUR rhetorical appeals at work.
What are ethos [4.0 GPA], logos [job market research], pathos [emotional family story], and kairos [100th anniversary]?
Fill in the BLANK:
ALL FIVE modes of multimodal composing are used in an Instagram post:
What is
(linguistic)
(aural)
(gestural)
What is green?
Georgetown was founded in the same decade as this important American document was signed, making it the nation's oldest Catholic and Jesuit university.
A: What is the constitution?