Reading
Writing
Culture
Language
Potpourri
100
This kind of reading asks us to think about how a piece of writing is put together and what choices the writer made in creating it.
What is rhetorical reading (or “reading like a writer”)?
100
These kinds of words are frequently used to signal where we are presenting others’ ideas. They can be neutral, tentative, or strong.
What are reporting verbs?
100
This term describes people who read online content and comment on it.
What are "netizens"?
100
These two languages each have more native speakers than English, but fewer speakers overall when you count second-language users.
What are Spanish and Mandarin Chinese?
100
This was the name of the typhoon that caused our second class meeting to be canceled.
What is Lekima?
200
This specific type of summary usually appears between the title and introduction of an academic text and is useful in online databases for determining the content of a specific piece. It is also a word that can mean “existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.”
What is an abstract?
200
Literally meaning "to see again," this process demands significant new thinking and new work on a previously completed piece of writing and not simply surface-level changes.
What is revision?
200
A Communist Party health campaign poster in China showed this happening to Mickey Mouse, an act that would likely surprise an American audience.
What is being stabbed (or staked)?
200
This term, derived from words literally meaning “Frankish tongue” refers to “a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.” English is often considered a contemporary one.
What is a lingua franca?
200
The image below displays an example of this kind of competition.
What is eSports?
300
This type of reading happens when an researcher sends her work to be published and receives comments from other experts in her field or when students share work with one another in order to improve their writing.
What is peer review?
300
Often used to describe another writer or thinker’s ideas in a specific, rather than a general way, this form of incorporating a source requires one to cite the original author, capture the meaning of the source idea, and present that idea in new words with a new sentence structure.
What is paraphrase?
300
In his book The Lexus and the Olive Tree, this writer claims that cultural texts, like McDonald’s Big Macs, maintain their meaning as they travel from one culture to another.
Who is Thomas Friedman?
300
"Hodiaŭ estas la lasta tago de nia klaso!" is the way that this "hopeful" language would say, "Today is the last day of our class!" Invented by the Polish ophthalmologist, Ludwik Zamenhof, it is “considered the most successful of modern invented languages.”
What is Esperanto?
300
This kind of evidence shows that other scholars or thinkers on a topic have come to the same conclusion as you have.
(Hint: E=mc2)
What is "Einstein" evidence?
400
These two terms describe 1) the readers we imagine reading our writing and 2) the reason we have for writing our text. They are two of the fundamental principles of composition.
What are audience and purpose?
400
Joseph Williams described this idea by asking the question, “What will you gain from answering your question or what will be lost if you do not answer your question?” (Hint: this is a different meaning of the word that means the thing we might put through Dracula, or Mickey Mouse’s, heart).
What is what is at stake? (or What is/are the stake(s)?)
400
These kinds of cultures, often associated with young people, can be defined as “an identifiable group within a society, whose members share common values and have similar behavior patterns.” They “can be based on social characteristics, such as ethnicity, or on styles generated by the individuals who make [them] up,” and they “usually share some features with the host culture, but may also be oppositional to it.”
What are subcultures?
400
According to Lera Boroditsky, when presented with cards to put in sequential order, the Kuuk Thaayore aboriginal people of Australia use this method of spatial arrangement to represent time.
What is east to west?
400
Taking seriously the ideas of those who might disagree with you is the basis of including this kind of point, which might contradict one of your points in a way that allows you to answer the objection in advance.
What is counterargument?
500
This term, borrowed from the French, was defined by J.R. Martin as “how things get done when language is used to accomplish them.”
What is genre?
500
Coined by management expert Roger Martin, this term for a way of unifying ideas can also be defined in terms he borrowed from F. Scott Fitzgerald as, ““the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
What is integrative thinking?
500
This kind of culture was theorized as the product of a rapid growth in new media and communication technologies in the early to mid-20th century. The American critic Davis Macdonald described it in 1957 as “imposed from above. It is fabricated by technicians hired by businessmen; its audience are passive consumers, their participation limited to the choice between buying and not buying.”
What is mass culture?
500
This “effect” describes the idea that “we can have different feelings about the same thing . . . depending on the language used to talk about it.”
What is the "framing" effect?
500
This kind of mistaken thinking refers to the idea that someone will “continue a behavior or endeavor as a result of previously invested resources (time, money or effort).”
What is the "sunk cost" fallacy?