Rhetorical Appeals & Devices
The group of people who a piece of communication attempts to reach.
What is audience?
The part of a scholarly you should skim/read to help determine if it is worth further reading.
What is the abstract?
The term used to describe keywords like AND, OR, and NOT.
What is a Boolean operator?
The recursive steps you take in writing an essay, that can include drafting, revising, and more.
What is the writing process?
Our final exam period is on this date.
What is December 1?
(11:30am-1:30pm)
Addressing one of these boosts your ethos as a writer because you answer potential objections that your audience may have.
What is a counterargument?
The part of your research paper that lists all of the sources cited within.
What is a works cited/references page?
Doing this while reading a source helps you identify key parts of the text, which will help you remember when you look at it later on.
What is annotating?
A sentence (or two) that sets up the scope, purpose, and argument of an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
You need this number of sources minimum.
This rhetorical appeal relies on the audience's trust in a writer's credibility, character, or experience.
What is ethos?
You can use this website to check if a journal title is peer reviewed.
What is Ulrichs Web?
The terms you enter into a search engine to find sources.
What are keywords/search terms?
The words or phrases that help "glue" the different ideas in a paper together.
What are transitions?
You need this number of scholarly sources minimum.
What is 2?
This rhetorical appeal attempts to evoke emotions in an audience.
What is pathos?
This acronym gives you a checklist for looking at a source's credibility, including currency, accuracy, relevancy and more.
What is CRAAP?
Currency, Relevancy, Accuracy, Authority, Purpose
This multilayered food is used as a metaphor to describe how to properly embed quotes or evidence into your writing.
What is a quote sandwich?
Your research paper should have this purpose.
What is argumentative/persuasive?
This rhetorical appeal uses not only facts and statistics, but also organization of an argument.
What is logos?
This acronym helps you build habits for corroborating information you find in a source against other sources.
What is SIFT?
Stop, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, Trace claims, quotes, and media to the original context and [Check your emotions]
This research skill weaves together ideas from multiple sources to show how they connect, contrast, or build on one another, rather than summarizing each one separately.
What is synthesis?
This part of writing is used to set up what each paragraph is about.
What is a topic sentence?
Your research essay should be approximately this many words long.
What is 1500-1800?