Reading Notes
Tobar reveals that the concept of whiteness is about this many years old.
About 500 years
The first sentence or two of a body paragraph that provide the central focus of the paragraph.
Topic sentence
In MLA formatting, these 2 pieces of information are need in the top, right-hand corner of each page.
Writer's last name and page number
This term refers to subconscious quick judgements we make to help us make decisions quickly
Cognitive Biases
This term refers to how a person uses language to persuade or convince someone to think or feel a particular way about a particular subject.
Rhetoric
This man assassinated MLK, and according to Tobar, he had "a longing to wrap himself in the exalted cloak of whiteness, and the many fictions of whiteness" (74).
James Earl Ray
Sentences, phrases, or even words that are used to help improve a writer's flow.
Transitions
This page is placed after the essay itself. This page contains a list of all the sources mentioned in the essay.
Works cited page
This kind of cognitive bias refers to when a person feels like they need to agree with the larger group
Peer pressure bias
This rhetorical appeal refers to using emotion to persuade an audience.
Pathos
In the introduction to Orientalism, this author wrote about how "othering" was used to subjugate and oppress.
Edward Said
The breaking down of ideas into smaller more easily understood components.
Analysis
This kind of citation is used when citing a source within the essay itself.
In-text citation
This term refers to the discomfort a person has while holding to competing beliefs.
Cognitive dissonance
This rhetorical appeal refers to using logic to persuade an audience.
Logos
This author claimed, "National boundaries create our 'illegality' and our 'otherness'" (172).
Hector Tobar
Quotes, paraphrases, summaries, descriptions. Anything that the writer uses to support their claims.
Evidence
On MLA works cited pages, the source entries are placed in this order.
Alphabetical
This type of cognitive bias refers to when people use the first piece of information they receive to make judgements on later pieces of information. For example, if you saw a bottle of wine marketed at $2000 and then one marketed at $200, you may think the second bottle is inexpensive.
Anchoring bias
This rhetorical appeal refers to the use of credibility to persuade an audience.
Ethos
According to Bauer and Bourhis, this type of power "address[es] how individuals cognitively
and affectively organize their perceptions and evaluations of social reality, often as detached
individuals not much affected by the social context in which they live" (602).
Intra-personal
The tying together of ideas and sources to support a new idea or concept.
Synthesis
These 2 pieces of information are needed to provide an in-text citation for a book.
Author's last name and page number.
This kind of bias happens when people unconsciously work to protect their own ego. For example, someone may "cherry-pick" feedback to support their high opinion of themselves
Self-serving bias
These 3 terms refers to the 3 main points central to a rhetorical situation.
Author, audience, and subject