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The sentence in an essay that states its main idea, provides a road map, and explains how and why.
What is a thesis statement.
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Spot is a bad dog, he has fleas.
What is a comma splice.
100
The name of the citation style used for this and all English and literature courses.
What is MLA Style.
100
What David Foster Wallace calls usage experts who believe that correctness lies in usage.
What are descriptivists.
100
Alison Bechdel's graphic essay explores the authors relationship with this person.
Who is her mother.
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The process of making changes to the higher order concerns in an essay in order to make it better. These changes may be based on self-review or feedback from others, including your instructor.
What is revision.
200
While most people associate Halloween with candy.
What is a sentence fragment.
200
What we call the phrase used to introduce, frame, or begin explaining a quotation, example, or evidence from a cited source.
What is a signal phrase.
200
This is the word that Walker Percy uses to describe one's authority to know and understand a subject, thing, idea, or place on one's own.
What is sovereignty.
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This is the object/concept Michel Foucault famously used as a metaphor to describe how discipline and power functions in modern society.
What is the panopticon.
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The process by which writers with similar purposes read and respond to each others' writing in order to share feedback for improvement.
What is peer review.
300
A student must take good notes in class so that they do well on the exam.
What is pronoun disagreement in number.
300
An important quality of academic writing is to be this, which means to state an idea in writing with as few words as possible.
What is concise.
300
Kathryn Schulz defines this as "the tendency to give more weight to evidence that confirms our beliefs than to evidence that challenges them" (372).
What is confirmation bias.
300
As Kathryn Schulz explains, this kind of reasoning enables humans to make conclusions based on only a small amount of evidence and probability.
What is inductive reasoning.
400
These basic parts of essays should all support the thesis of an essay, have one main idea, present and explain evidence and examples, and maintain a logical progression.
What is a paragraph.
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As Smith contends, " one must not argue over matters of taste." (36)
What is quotation/parenthetical citation not punctuated appropriately.
400
Academic writing should typically not use what two pronouns?
What is I & you (first and second person pronouns).
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Paulo Freire argues that this method of education creates classrooms that mirror oppression in society.
What is the banking concept of education.
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Walker Percy uses this two-word phrase to name the media through which we learn: "The new textbook, the type, the smell of the page, the classroom, the aluminum windows and the winter sky, the personality of Miss Hawkins [...]" (306). He also says that we unfortunately remember more about it than the subject we learned.
What is the educational package.
500
The final stage of writing that involves checking for problems with lower order concerns: spelling, grammatical errors, and typographical errors.
What is proofreading.
500
The author argue that social media is making Americans stupid.
What is subject-verb agreement.
500
Academic writing should avoid this kind of diction, which typically refers to usage that is conversational.
What is colloquial.
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The thing that Michel Foucault argues that factories, schools, hospitals, and barracks all resemble (208).
What is a prison.
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What David Foster Wallace calls teachers who fail to see the way that SWE causes SNOOTlets to be excluded by their peers.
What is dumb.