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Rhetorical Triangle
Summary
Paraphrase
Quotation
Potpourri
100
This rhetorical situation corresponds to the rhetorical aim logos and involves the topic or theme about which an author writes.
What is the subject?
100
This summary quality involves concisely conveying the important information, usually in less words than the original text.
What is brief?
100
Like a quotation, a paraphrase must correctly be this.
What is cited?
100
This occurs when an author inserts a quote without introducing or commenting on it.
What is a drop quote?
100
This editorial process focuses on a paper's two most important elements, its content and organization.
What is global revision?
200
This rhetorical appeal involves an author establishing his or her credibility.
What is ethos?
200
This summary quality involves making sense to someone who has never read the text.
What is independent?
200
This paraphrase quality involves including all of the author's primary ideas, findings, or arguments.
What is thorough?
200
Usually preceding a quotation, this provides the name of the author and context for a quote.
What is a signal phrase?
200
A good type of this essay should be honest, informed, clear, and well supported, both with textual evidence and personal experiences.
What is a response essay?
300
This rhetorical appeal involves an author trying to appeal to the reader's emotions.
What is pathos?
300
This summary quality involves not judging or evaluating the text's topic or style.
What is neutral?
300
This paraphrase quality involves correctly reflecting what the author actually wrote.
What is accurate?
300
One of the three requirements that a quotation must satisfy, this is when the circumstances needed to properly understand a quote are clearly and accurately presented.
What is contextualized?
300
Pronouns must agree with the nouns they represent in type (person, place, or thing), gender, and this.
What is number?
400
This rhetorical aim seeks to educate the reader about a subject, usually in a neutral manner.
What is informative?
400
This summary quality involves correctly conveying the important information from the text.
What is accurate?
400
This paraphrase quality involves using impartial language.
What is fair?
400
Another of the requirements for quotations, this is when a quote's author, source text, and location within that text are clearly and accurately provided.
What is identified?
400
Along with information on the source text(s) and the author's thesis statement, a good introduction usually includes this, a statement meant to catch readers' attentions and reel them in.
What is a hook?
500
This rhetorical aim seeks to convince the reader to feel/think one way or another about a subject.
What is persuasive?
500
This summary quality involves conveying all the main points of the text.
What is comprehensive?
500
This paraphrase quality involves not stating your personal opinion on the topic, style, or quality or the text.
What is objective?
500
This is probably the most important reason to quote material.
What is "when it is written in an especially distinctive, interesting, or insightful way?" I will also accept, "when it provides support for one's paper," and "to show an alternative explanation or contradicting position."
500
Unlike the introduction, this portion of the paper does not introduce new information or arguments; rather it recaps them and suggests their possible implications.
What is the conclusion?