Unit 1
Causing someone to do something from reason or argument.
What is Persuasion?
Having to do with the ability to think or reason.
What is cognitive?
Existing or spreading throughout something.
What is pervasive?
In an intense or deeply felt manner.
What is fervently?
Fair and equal.
What is equitable?
Directly supports your ideas and claims about a text.
What is strong evidence?
Rhetoric is a platform for creating a relationship among three key components: the message, the writer/speaker (author), and the audience.
What is rhetorical triangle?
Art of persuasion.
What is rhetoric?
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.
What is a theme?
Foundational document that provides readers with information that has some kind of historical impact or significance regarding the formation and development of the United States.
What is a seminal United States text?
The reader.
What is audience?
To synthesize, interpret, and present information from a variety of credible (believable and convincing) sources.
What is researched essay?
Briefly summarize the main ideas.
What is a conclusion?
Central point.
What is a claim?
The result of looking at the essay as your audience would.
What is revision?
Occurs when meaning is unclear or uncertain, or multiple interpretations are possible.
What is ambiguity?
Content itself, the text—what is being communicated.
What is the message?
Has logic as its primary concern.
What is argument?
Central message or universal truth conveyed by a text.
What is theme?
Founding values and beliefs set forth by the US Constitution.
What is constitutional principles?
Different types of communication.
What is style and tone?
Write continuously about whatever comes to mind regarding possible topics for your paper.
What is freewriting?
Typographical variations.
What is font style?
Functions in the same way that a topic sentence functions in a paragraph.
What is thesis statement?
Flow is smooth from the beginning to the end.
What is transitional content?