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Who Said It?
Let's Talk Rhetoric
What'd They Say?
Classroom Talk
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This author writes that a "bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that."
Who is Sherman Alexie?
100
This is the intentional use of symbols in order to produce an effect on an audience.
What is rhetoric?
100
Kai Wright argues that these particular institutions engage in predatory practices, taking advantage of poor black populations who are trying to escape poverty.
What are for-profit colleges?
100
This type of freewriting requires you to write quickly, but also requires you to try to stay close to a particular topic as you proceed.
What is focused freewriting?
200
This author provides an overview of the many and various ways that poverty might be measured.
Who is Robert Haveman?
200
This rhetorical appeal might be found in the use of facts, in if-then statements, or in rational argumentation on the structural level.
What is logos?
200
According to Rector and Sheffield, the typical poor American has more living space than the average inhabitant of this continent.
What is Europe?
200
Michelle Alexander would probably love to find herself on an elevator with this person since he's in a position to directly enact policies that might make the criminal justice system fairer for black Americans.
Who is Jeff Sessions?
300
According to this author, we are constantly engaged in rhetorical analysis, so we have an obligation to study it formally and learn how to do it well (and therefore also be less susceptible to manipulation ourselves).
Who is Laura Bolin Carroll?
300
Your friend has just been robbed. He comes to you, shaken, and explains that all his money is gone, and he doesn't even know how he's going to pay his bills this month. You say, "that reminds me--you still owe me $100 from that trip. I sure could use that money." You are demonstrating a poor use of this lesser-known rhetorical appeal.
What is kairos?
300
Sherman Alexie suggests, in "Why Chicken Means So Much to Me," that people who are not poor mistakenly believe that Poverty = this + this.
What are empty refrigerator and empty stomach?
300
This term describes the ways that the concepts and vocabularies of a given field provide us with a perceptual and conceptual framework for seeing the world in a particular way, almost like putting on a pair of glasses that allow us to see and think through a particular frame.
What is an epistemic frame?
400
This author writes about her own writing process, about "living into" questions as the frame for good writing and inquiry, and about how sometimes you need other writers--in her case, Pablo Neruda--to provide the questions for you.
Who is Gretchen Pratt?
400
If we are going to rhetorically analyze a text, one of the very first things we must do is to determine this, which might be described as the characteristic and expected form a text takes based on previous examples of texts that aim to accomplish the same purpose.
What is genre?
400
Michelle Alexander frames her essay by arguing that this momentous event led many people to the erroneous conclusion that America had escaped racism at last.
What is the election of Barack Obama?
400
This Student Learning Outcome is defined as "a writer’s ability to articulate what s/he is thinking and why. For example, to explain the choices made in a composition, to contextualize a composition, to address revisions made in response to reader feedback etc."
What is Critical Reflection?
500
This author argues that black American families believe very strongly in the importance of education as a means to freedom, but that this focus on education also makes them vulnerable to being taken advantage of.
Who is Kai Wright?
500
Duncan and Magnuson reveal that research shows that an annual cash infusion of this amount into a poor family's budget can increase a young child's future earnings and confer other positive lifelong benefits as well.
What is $3,000?