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100
Name this person: He developed the CARS model. Say what this acronym stands for.
What is "creating a research space" and who is John Swales?
100
This is the study of human interaction and communication, or the product(s) of that interaction and communication within a discourse. Because all interaction is persuasive, some think of it as the study of persuasion.
What is rhetoric?
100
Since we constantly evolve and acquire new literacies, the author calls this process "Discourses" (with a capital "D")
Who is James Paul Gee?
100
He was a lab rat for a study entitled "Decisions and Revisions" and insists that all writing is autobiographical.
Who is Donald Murray?
100
A person who generates motivations - the purpose, needs, values, and expectations - through a text.
Who is a rhetor?
200
The CARS model consists of three moves writers make.
How do I establish the territory? How do I establish the niche? How do I occupy the niche?
200
He said that "In the street, I had been the most articulate hustler out there-- I had commanded attention when I said something. But now, trying to write simple English, I not only wasn't articulate, I wasn't even functional."
Who is Malcolm X? (in "Learning to Read")
200
He wrote "Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Service Workers" and defined a concept that describes the fact that people do not only read written texts; they also read people and situations. Name the author and the term.
Who is Tony Mirabelli and What is "multiliteracies"?
200
In this genre of writing you presented your research and insights about your own writing processes. In your research you observed and kept a log of your writing activities.
What is an "autoethnography"?
200
Christina Haas and Linda Flowers study and define this activity which helps the audience to read a text deeper, between-the-lines.
What is "rhetorical reading"?
300
Name the term and the writer who developed the following definition: a text that consists of words and phrases that have been used in other texts before which results in a network of texts / a woven fabric of words.
Who is James E. Porter? and What is "intertextuality"?
300
He said, "I still remember the exact moment when I first understood, with a sudden clarity, the purpose of a paragraph. I didn't have the vocabulary to say 'paragraph,' but I realized that a paragraph was a fence that held words."
Who is Sherman Alexie? (in "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me")
300
Originally, this is a term from prison culture, describing something "as making do with something less when the real thing is not available." In language studies it describes partial acquisition of linguistic rules in a discourse community coupled with metaknowledge and strategies to "make do" or "make the grade."
What is "Mushfake discourse"?
300
She conducted a study on revision and explored the use of a figure of speech as it had been used in the public discourse by authors on how they would describe their revision processes. Name the author and the figure of speech.
What is a metaphor? and Who is Barbara Tomlinson?
300
Margaret Kantz discusses in her article "Helping Students Use Textual Sources Persuasively" how writers write a new text from other existing texts and why this is no easy task. A key concept is to move from "reporting the facts" to "arguing about what the facts might be," thus making ________ and backing them up.
What is a claim?
400
This check list assists in the decision-making process and is a approach to determine patterns and paradigms for problem solving.
What is a heuristic?
400
Christine Casanave coined a term to describe the strategies writers employ to negotiate the challenges they face when they write in a university setting.
What is a "literacy game"?
400
Before the idea of discourse communities this concept dominated language studies. It is defined as "a community sharing knowledge of rules for the conduct and interpretation of speech. Such sharing comprises knowledge of at least one form of speech, and knowledge also of its patterns of use. Both conditions are necessary."
What is a "speech community"?
400
"Process" refers to a variety of activities that are part of writing/composing. Name at least 4 main activities. (out of six)
What is: - planning (inventing and arranging ideas) - drafting (creating actual text from previously unwritten ideas) - revising (developing a text or a portion of a text further after an initial draft) - editing (fine-tuning, polishing, or correcting problems in the text) production (transferring a text to its final form) - publication -participation in public or private discourse)
400
He writes about the rhetorical situation and its four constituents. Name the author and the four constituents.
Who is Keith Grant-Davie and What are constraints, exigence, audience, and rhetor?
500
He discusses the role of the computer as the latest step in a long line of writing technologies. Name the author and the two technologies in his article title.
Who is Dennis Barron? What are pencil and pixel?
500
She discusses the concept of "literacy sponsors" in her article entitled "... "?
Who is Deborah Brandt and what is "Sponsors of Literacy"?
500
He developed the concept of "discourse community" and determined that such a discourse community needs to meet 6 characteristics. Name the author and the characteristics.
Who is John Swales? and What are: -a broadly agreed upon set of common goals -a mechanism of intercommunication -a participatory mechanism to provide information and feedback -utilizes and possesses genres -acquires and disseminates specific lexis -has a threshold level of members with relevant expertiss
500
Name three out of six authors who composed portraits of themselves as writers?
Who is: Anne Lamott, Stephen King, Allegra Goodman, Kent Haruf, Susan Sontag, Junot Diaz
500
He developed in his article "Intertextuality and the Discourse Community" a checklist to study a discourse community. (included in appendix of said article). Name the author and name the approach he suggests to analyze a discourse community.
Who is James Porter and What is a forum analysis?