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What is the primary source for project 1?
zines
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Which of our two main projects asked you to reflect on your experiences with language?
Literacy Narrative
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In a research paper, do you let your quotes speak for themselves or do you explain the meaning of your quotes to the reader?
You explain the meaning of your quotes to your reader
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True or False: Revising is the same as editing.
False
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What are the three rhetorical appeals?
pathos, logos, and ethos
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What is a peer-reviewed source?
a source that has been vetted by scholars in an academic field for quality and importance.
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In order to reflect on writing, what analogy does Washuta use in her article?
she compares writing to mining
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In a research paper do you put your analysis of the zine in separate paragraphs from your discussion of secondary sources?
no
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Writing is a process not a ______________.
Product
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What are the three parts of the rhetorical triangle?
writer, reader, purpose
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What are the five components one should review to make sure a source is credible?
Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose of the source
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What is rhetorical analysis?
A rhetorical analysis reflects on all elements of the rhetorical situation--the audience, purpose, medium, and context--within which a communication was generated and delivered in order to make an argument about that communication.
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For MLA citations are zine titles: italicized, placed in quotation marks, or do you simply capitalize the first letter of each word in the title?
italicized
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What is the name of the class activity for first drafts?
Peer Review
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Define discourse community
A discourse community is a group of people who share the same goals, interests, genres, and ways of communicating.
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For Schwegler, how do students typically view research?
"These comments show that students generally view the research paper as in- formative in aim, not argumentative, much less analytical; as factual rather than interpretive; designed to show off knowledge of library skills and documentation procedures. The paper is viewed as an exercise in information gathering, not an act of discovery" (Schwegler 820).
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What is the name of the author who asks you to consider reflecting on the rhetorical choices writers make and why they make those decisions?
Mike Bunn
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What are the five different kinds of weak theses?
makes no claim, is obviously true or a statement of fact, restates conventional wisdom, offers personal conviction as the basis for the claim, makes an overly broad claim
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What author describes the first draft as a "child's draft"?
Anne Lamott
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What is a connotation?
A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning.
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For Schwegler, how should students view and understand research?
"Academics view the research paper as analytical and interpretive, an attempt to explore some aspect of the world and to make verifiable statements about it. Research generally begins with an observation or a need for knowledge which is then explored in a systematic manner" (Schwegler, 820).
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What does RLW stand for?
Read like a Writer
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Which 1 of the 5 weak thesis attributes applies to this thesis?
In my opinion, zines are ineffective at teaching people about climate change.
offers personal conviction as the basis for the claim
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What distinguishes writing from speech?
Revision
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What is genre?
"an act of language—for our purposes here, mostly acts of writing, in particular—that behaves in typical or characteristic ways, which we can observe in repeated or persistent situations" (Bickmore "Genres in the Wild")
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