Rhetoric
Name and define the three rhetorical appeals
What are Ethos (authority/credibility), pathos (emotion), and logos (statistics/numbers)
This east-coast magazine features cover illustrations that rhetorically weigh in on recent events in American culture.
What is "The New Yorker"
These two writing genres will be written by every student in class to help them obtain a job or an internship
Describe 3 broad rhetorical choices Starbucks makes on their Instagram account.
What are a polished, formal aesthetic; prominent coffee imagery; lots of green; use of celebrities; holiday and seasonal images; animals/pets; (Prof Richter's judgement)
True or false: Citation styles like MLA and APA have officially sanctioned ways to cite AI in academic writing
True!
This rhetorical process refers to the "ideal timing" to do something that is subjective, emotion-laden, and cultural
What is "kairos"
This is Prof Richter's favorite part of argumentative writing to read
What is "counterargument"
What are "parentheses with the author's last name and the page number inside" (Prof Richter's judgement)
How many branches of government have passed or allowed a TikTok ban? (give a number)
3 (all of them)
This technology company's AI told users to put glue in their pizza and to run with scissors to stay healthy as recently as Summer 2024.
What is "Google"
In this rhetorical process, a visual icon or written term represents a much larger idea
What is "symbol" (or "symbolism")
These two goals are what determine if a thesis statement is successful or not
What are "communicating an argument" and "giving the reader a heads up/preview/"coming soon" about supporting evidence or subtopics
Name 3 ways to tell if a source is scholarly or an academic journal article
What are works cited pages, dense technical language, volumes or numbers listed, author affiliations listed, no advertisements, methods and discussion sections
This "funny" genre of videos is credited with helping YouTube grow in popularity (and you cited one as part of a citation scavenger hunt)
What are funny cat videos.
This is a video or sound clip that has been distorted by AI to create something that is fake or fictitious but that looks to most people like it's real
What is a "deepfake"
A debate between these two presidential candidates in the 1960s showcases the importance of visual appearance and visual rhetoric
Who are John Kennedy and Richard Nixon
A counterargument must do these two things to be successful in academic writing
What are "state an opposing viewpoint" and "refute that viewpoint by stating why it's wrong, what it's missing, or what evidence it isn't factoring in"
This database, which is available to you for free as a GW student, is Prof Richter's favorite.
What is "Academic Search Complete"
Describe 3 broad rhetorical choices Dunkin makes on their Instagram account.
This organization conducts frequent polling about how Americans use social media platforms and empirically researches how social media impacts their lives (hint: our 2nd day of class)
What is the PEW Research Center
These three elements comprise the "rhetorical situation"
This "annoyance" mentioned in Kyle Stedman's article "Annoying Ways People Use Source" uses an animal in its name and refers to a writer not properly introducing a quotation to their reader
What is "armadillo roadkill"
This research librarian helped teach us Zotero and how to use GW databases
Who is "Misty Trunnell"
This is the first social media site to attain 1 million users (hint: "you've got a friend in me...")
Friendster
This social media platform, known for facilitating gossipy rumors in local communities, featured rampant discussion of UFOs/secret government activities/conspiracies when lights were spotted in the sky in December of 2024.
What is Nextdoor.