I Swear I Did the Reading
He wrote about learning to read in secret, calling literacy both dangerous and liberating.
Frederick Douglass
Audience, purpose, context, and genre together make up this.
Rhetorical Situation
Unit One's major assignment asked you to write in this genre — tracing your own relationship with language, reading, or writing.
Literacy Narrative
Unit Two sent you into Georgetown and DC to observe a community space using this research method.
Ethnographic Observation or Ethnography
Zine is short for ________.
Magazine
This author wrote about grief and identity and showed us a personal memoir can do cultural analysis at the same time.
Michelle Zauner
This classical appeal builds trust through the writer's credibility, expertise, or positionality.
Ethos
Douglass describes Mrs. Auld's face changing when her husband told her to stop teaching him. This narrative technique is called_______ and is used instead of only summarizing.
showing not telling, writing a scene
These are the informal notes you took while observing your space — capturing sensory detail, behavior, and layout in real time.
Field Notes
This civic genre aims for one direct behavior-change message and typically has an organizational or institutional voice behind it.
What is a PSA?
Scholar Jenae Cohn argues that visual rhetoric isn't __________, it does real rhetorical work that readers need a framework to analyze.
decoration
This term describes adjusting your language depending on the social context something Anzaldúa critiqued as an act of survival forced on marginalized speakers.
code-switching
This course value — centered in Unit One and running through the whole semester — holds that all language varieties deserve equal respect and legitimacy.
Linguistic Justice
Kimmelman's essay about New York bodega ramps argued that everyday design does this — making it a model for how to write about space with a civic argument.
reveal something about access, power, or community values
Unlike a traditional essay, all three MA#3 genres requires writing for this___________.
Public (or real-world) audience
The author Seth Kahn put ethnographic writing "in context" arguing that observation alone isn't enough without connecting it to larger _______ of _____.
systems of power
This design principle describes the strategic use of empty space to reduce visual clutter and guide a reader's eye.
White Space
Anzaldúa's essay argues that attacking her language is attacking this.
Her Soul | Her Identity | Her People
Seth Kahn argues that ethnographic writers must do this — not just observe what's happening, but explain why it matters beyond the space itself.
make an argument (or analyze, not just describe)
This is the term for the intended reader a civic genre writer imagines and designs for — the person whose beliefs, values, or behaviors the piece hopes to reach.
Target audience
This Ashley J. Holmes reading connected civic genres to a purpose beyond communication — arguing that public writing should work toward this.
Social change
When you explained WHY you chose your civic genre for MA#3, you were practicing this term or the ability to match form to argument deliberately.
rhetorical decision-making (or genre awareness)
Unlike a traditional essay, all three MA#3 genres requires writing for this___________.
Public (or real-world) audience
A worn down path on Healy Lawn where students cut across the construction to save time on their route is an example of this __________________.
tactical urbanism
Zines, PSAs, and infographics all make arguments — but they do it through this combination, rather than through prose paragraphs alone.
text and image (or multimodality / visual and verbal rhetoric)