Rhetoric
This term is defined as proof of credibility.
What is ethos?
They are listing, clustering, journalistic questions, outlining and freewriting.
What are five methods of brainstorming?
The documentation style favored by the humanities, particularly English and modern languages.
What is MLA?
The first name of our T.A.
Ashli.
The reason why the Washington Post stopped running its internet fact-checking column. ("The Other Side is Not Dumb")
"What is the readers didn't care if what they read was true or not?"
This term is defined as appeal to emotion.
What is pathos?
How Donald Murray, author of "The Maker's Eye," would answer the question, "When is writing finished?"
"What is never?"
What is APA?
Lost in the mail.
Where is Will's charger?
What is a fact?
This term is defined as an appeal to reason.
What is logos?
In her article, "Understanding Composing," Sondra Perl said that the writing process is not linear, but this.
What is recursive?
This can be avoided by properly citing a source that is either quoted or paraphrased.
Plagiarism.
The set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a given language, also known as "word order."
What is syntax?
Adhering to SWE or standard written English, we use this to write our essays in universities and the professions, as opposed to this, when we are achieving the truest expression of ourselves.
What is an academic voice versus an authentic voice?
The force or urgency which motivates a rhetor to argue in the first place.
What is exigence?
There is not such thing as "good writing; there is only good . . ."
"What is re-writing?"
I don't buy bread at the store I make it at home which saves me money
What is a semi-colon, a comma, and a period?
When the professional writer feels they are at the start of their writing process and the amateur thinks they're about done.
What is the first draft?
Nancy Sommers discovered that student writers struggle to bring their essays into congruence with this whereas experienced writers seek to discover meaning in their engagement in revision--emphasizing the lack of clarity, the differences of meaning, and productive dissonance. ("Revision Strategies")
What is a predefined meaning?
One of the most common models of argumentation, it consists of an introduction, warrants for underlying assumptions and or qualifiers to limit claims, claims with supporting evidence, counterarguments for each claim, and then a conclusion.
What is the Toulmin model of argumentation?
What are "Pre-writing, Writing, and Re-Writing"?
As opposed to sentence level changes, it involves moving large bodies of text around, deleting others, and adding new ones.
What is revision?
How Straub says you should address other students you are responding to when you comment on their papers ("Responding, Really Responding to Other Student Writers).
What is as an honest friend?
The writer who at the end of his essay says he reads books and is trying to "save lives."
Who is Sherman Alexie?