MLA 9
Types of Sources
RHE 306 Vocab
Classical Template
Random Knowledge
100
This goes in the top right header of an essay.
What is the author's last name and page number?
100
This type of source uses the first and the second person: “When I see the DOW average fall, I conclude that the U.S. economy is struggling.”
What is a viewpoint source?
100
This is the art of persuasive speaking and writing.
What is rhetoric?
100
This component of the Classical Template is designed to provide background information for the audience.
What is the narration?
100
This famous Shakespeare play gave us the the well known line "To be or not to be."
What is Hamlet?
200
This is the margin size for MLA 9 formatted essays.
What are 1 inch margins?
200
This type of source attributes ideas to other people: “John Finglehopper, a climatologist at the University of Northeast State, said at a recent demonstration against drilling for oil along the U.S. Gulf Coast, ‘Global warming is really happening, faster than we think, and because of human-made carbon emissions.’”
What is an informational source?
200
These are people directly affected in a controversy.
Who are stakeholders?
200
This component of the Classical Template is where you would include your thesis or topic sentences.
What is the partition?
200
Louis Armstrong was a master of this brass instrument.
What is the trumpet?
300
This is a type of in-text citation that you use at the end of a sentence to cite your source.
What is a parenthetical citation?
300
This type of source include strong language designed to move the audience: “Continuing to give food stamps to undeserving people who trade them for drugs and liquor will not help anyone and will certainly lead to the crippling dependency that plagues our inner cities.”
What is a viewpoint source?
300
This is is the most important thing that a writer wants the audience to remember, to believe, to feel, or to do.
What is the principal claim?
300
This component of the Classical Template is where you address the opposition.
What is the refutation?
300
Nori is another name for this sushi ingredient.
What is seaweed?
400
This is the special alignment you must use when formatting a works cited page entry.
What is a hanging indent?
400
This type of source expresses ideas—opinions, beliefs, and factual claims—without attributing them to someone else: “Global warming is really happening, faster than we think, and because of human-made carbon emissions.”
What is a viewpoint source?
400
This is the first year topic for Rhetoric 306 this year.
What is affordable housing?
400
This component of the Classical Template is also known as the conclusion.
What is the peroration?
400
This is the official state sport of Texas.
What is rodeo?
500
This is how you order your entries on your works cited page.
What is alphabetical order?
500
This type of source offers at least two viewpoints on any controversial issue to stay unbiased: “According to Representative Cushman (Republican from Oklahoma), the healthcare.gov website is a ‘train wreck.’ But Democrats and the White House believe that the website, despite its initial troubles, is working very well. ‘There were a few hiccups at first,’ said Jane Johnson (Democrat from Illinois), ‘but healthcare.gov is now up and running.’”
What is an informational source?
500
This is something that people debate.
What is a controversy?
500
This component of the Classical Template is where you gain the audience's trust.
What is the exordium?
500
This famous singer was named People Magazine's "Sexiest Musician Alive" in 2024.
Who is Harry Styles?