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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
The opposite of public discourse is ...?
What is private discourse?
100
The opposite of a linear research process; the researcher will have to return to an earlier point in the process to retrace streps or rethink some of the argument.
What is "recursive"?
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
This concept comes with five constituents. Rhetor, Exigence, Constraints, Audience and Discourse.
What is the "rhetorical situation"?
200
Name three mechanisms of intercommunications in this class.
What are Canvas, Email, Lecture, textbook, TED talks, etc.
200
The researcher deal with four types of evidence. Name the one that is missing below. -empirical data -current events -experimentation
What is authoritative testimony?
200
An activity where the reader takes apart a text and discovers the relationships between its parts and in relation to the text as a whole.
What is a rhetorical analysis?
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
Kain and Wardle developed the theory about a group of people who share a common object and motive over time, as well as a wide range of tools to act on an object and to realize the motive.
What is "activity theory"?
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
Name the three types of research areas.
What is library research, internet research and field research?
300
According to Toulmin, texts consist of the three elements.
What are claims, grounds, and warrants?
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
John Swales developed the theory of discourse communities. Which two of the six characteristics are missing? -mechanisms of intercommunication -participatory mechanisms of receiving information and providing feedback -genres of communication -threshold levels of membership
What is a set of common public goals? What is lexis?
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/researching. Name at least 3 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
According to Carl Rogers, this text includes more than two viewpoints or perspectives on one issue.
What is the Rogerian mode of argumentation?
500
He discusses the role of argument in the public sphere. Name the author and the name of the article.
Who is Stuart Greene and What is _Argument as Conversation_?
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
This document includes an introduction, a research map, a research proposal and an annotated bibliography.
What is the research dossier?
500
Authors use these textual strategies to strengthen their arguments; often these strategies are deceiving.
What are fallacies?