Segment 3
Rhetorical Situation
More Seg 3 Stuff
Wild Card
Rhetorical Appeals
100

The day the Segment 3 Project is due.

When is December 19, 2024?

100

Author, speaker, designer or composer of a given text

What is the rhetor?

100

The email for the instructor of this course.

What is fmendez@uwm.edu

100

This is the chemical symbol for water.

What is H2O?

100

How do our emotions relate to arguments, ideas, thoughts, places, people, and the world around us?

What is pathos?

200

The citation format you'll be using for the Segment 3 project

What is MLA format?

200

Rhetor’s goals in creating the text.

What is purpose?

200

Complex sets of instructions typically used by computers to execute a task or solve a problem.

What is an algorithm?

200

What eBay was originally called?

What is AuctionWeb?

200

"Common sense" arguments: cultural and communal unspoken agreements about what is "logical"

What is logos?

300

When you draw on ideas or information from sources, as well from your own experience, to creating meaning of your own

What is synthesis?
300

The person or group of people that the rhetor wants to reach through the text.

What is the audience?

300

a way of communicating?

What is a mode?

300

The day Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul streamed. Also when the Seg 2 Project was due.

When was November 15, 2024?

300

Credibility, authority, believability, and/or trustworthiness based on one’s role, status, position, and/or reputation in the context in which they are speaking

What is situated ethos?

400

Tracking down sources through concepts, topics, ideas or themes

What is topical searching?

400

The broader world of cultural, social, and political circumstances within which a text operates.

What is the context?

400

The ability to track down citations/references in a text's work cited page, bibliography, and referential material in the text.

What is citation chasing?

400

The highest grossing Christmas movie of all time?

What is Home Alone?

400

Credibility, authority, trustworthiness, and believability that is built up in the text/argument itself

What is invented ethos?

500

Using words and symbols, such as AND or NOT, that let you expand or narrow your search parameters when using a database or search engine.

What is a Boolean Operator?

500

Event, situation or issue that starts rhetorical discourse, or keeps it going

What is Exigence?

500

The result of the algorithm-driven news feeds and search results. Sites determine which content you’re most likely to engage with rather than the most accurate or complete sources.

What is a filter bubble

500

What is this kind of controller called?

Hint: Not a suitcase


What is an arcade stick?

500

The “right” time to make an argument or rhetorical intervention 

What is kairos?