The Academic Mindset
Reading Strategies
Summary Writing
Intro to Rhetoric
Functions & Characteristics of Rhetoric
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This is quality describes a genuine desire for understanding.

What is Curiosity?
100

This type of note summarize key points in a text.

What is Restatement?

100

This type of text gives a concise and accurate representation of another rhetor's work.

What is Academic Summary?

100

This term describes for whom a text is created.

What is Audience?

100

This characteristic describes how rhetoric reacts to a particular set of circumstances including time, location, audience, and context.

What is Responsive?

200

This quality describes the ability to question claims, facts, evidence, and information in order to delay judgment.

What is Skepticism?

200

This type of note involves recording your thoughts on a text.

What is Reaction?

200
When writing a summary, you should be specific when describing this.

What are key ideas?

200

This term describes the creator of a text.

What is Rhetor?

200

An advertisement would demonstrate this function of rhetoric.

What is Assists Advocacy?

300

This quality allows you to bounce back from adversity and recommit to the task at hand

What is Resilience?

300

This type of note involves breaking down a text into related chunks.

What is Tracking?

300

A summary should establish this for your readers.

What is Context?

300

This term describes what the rhetor hopes to achieve with a text.

What is Purpose?

300

The portrayal of Rosie the Riveter as a strong yet feminine white woman in order to appeal to American housewives is an example of this characteristic.

What is Adapted to an Audience?

400

The practice of conscious, deliberate thinking, or abstraction, that allows you to understand and refine your own learning process.

What is Reflection?

400

This strategy involves reading the first sentences of paragraphs in a text as well as the introduction and conclusion.

What is skimming?

400

A summary should be more general/broad when describing this.

What are Details?

400

We evaluate rhetoric based on this, not its morality or ethics.

What is Effectiveness?

400

Going to college to obtain a diploma that can help you get a specific job is an example of how rhetoric can function in this way.

What is Distributes Power?

500

This practice helps you see learning as interacting with other people.

What is Reciprocity?

500

This strategy involves looking for specific information in a text before reading it carefully.

What is scanning?

500

Using third person point-of-view and present tense in a summary can help you focus on this.

What is Authorial Action?

500

James Herrick defines rhetoric as the practice and study of this.

What is Symbolic Expression?

500

Rhetoric addresses these, that do not have a predetermined outcome.

What are Contingent Issues?