TSIS Chapter 1-4 Test
General Rules of quoting:
1) Quote relevant passages 2)Frame every quotation 3) Blend the author's words with your own
Two ways to integrate quotations into your text:
1) choosing quotations wisely with an eye to how well they support a particular part of your text 2) by surrounding very major quotation with a frame explaining those whose words they are, what the quotation means and how the quotation relates to your own text
To adequately frame a quotation you need to put in a Quotation sandwich which is:
1)Putting a statement introducing as the top slice of the bread this introductory or lead in claims should explain who is speaking and set up what the quotation says 2)and the explanation following as the bottom slice of it this follow up statement should explain why you consider the quotation to be important and what do you take it to say
What parallel structures enables readers to place your argument on the map of positions while still keeping your arguments complex
1. Yes and No 2. One the One hand, one the other hand
Ways to add something new to an agreement:
1.accesible translation 2. point out some unnoticed evidence or line of reasoning 3. cite some corroborating personal experience
What is the clear mark of someone that knows the subject that he/she is talking about; and therefore is likely to be a reliable, trustworthy guide?
A writer that introduces an ongoing debate by showing that there are conflicting ways to look at their subject.:
What are the three most common and recognizable ways to respond to others ideas:
Agreeing, disagreeing, and a combination of both
In order to argue persuasively you need to do what:
BE in dialogue with others
An important key to writing an argument:
Because of the fact that you are entering a conversation you need to start by summarizing what others are saying and then introduce your own ideas as a response
How not to introduce quotations:
Do not introduce quotations with redundant or misleading phrases
A writer who does not go back and studies carefully what others are saying and studies it very closely and confuses others views with something he already beliefs ends up doing what:
He ends up conversing with imaginary others who are really only the products of his or her own biases and preconceptions
Why is introducing the ideas of others early in the essay important?
If you delay what you are responding to it alters the natural order in which readers process material an in which readers think and develop ideas.
What are the different ways that you can introduce a "they say" in your argument:
Introduce Standard views Introducing the They Say Something You Say: One that you yourself one held or one that you are ambivalent about Introduce it as Something Implied or Assumed: summarizing a point that is not directly stated Introducing an Ongoing Debate: summarizing a debate that presents two or more views.
What gives a tremendous amount of credibility to your summary and helps ensure that is fair and accurate
Quoting an authors exact words
One form of introducing an ongoing debate is by doing what:
Start with a proposition many people agree with in order to highlight the points in which they ultimately disagree
When as a writer you are not able to suspend your belief you are likely to produce what type of summaries:
Summaries that are so obviously biased that they undermine your credibility with readers
list summaries:
Summaries that simply inventory the original authors various points but fail to focus those points around any larger overall claim
What is one of the arsenals of basic moves you need to have in order to be in dialogue with others:
Summarizing others' arguments
Why do a lot of writers shy away from summarizing:
They don't want to take the trouble to go back to the text in question and wrestle with it They think that by devoting too much time to summarizing other views is going to take away from their own
Good summaries have a clear goal T/F
True
It is standard in the natural and social sciences to summarize the work of others quickly, in one pithy sentence or phrase T/F
True
When you agree you need to add something new to the conversation T/F
True
When you play the believing game readers should not be able to tell whether you agree or disagree with the ideas that you are summarizing. T/F
True
To give writing the most important thing of all-A POINT- a writer needs to indicate what?
What is the larger conversation that his thesis is responding to
What is the main problem writers make when quoting:
When writers assume that the quotation speaks for itself and don't explain the meaning of it
What is amove that leads to agreeing and disagreeing simultaneously
When you agree with one view while challenging another.
Can a "they say" be an idea that you once held or that you are ambivalent about? Yes or No
Yes, this is a way of introducing the views you are responding to by presenting them as your own.
What do you need to do in order for your reader to follow your unfolding response during your argument:
You need to keep reminding the reader what are the claims you are responding to
Satiric summary
a writer deliberately gives his or her own spin to someone else's argument in order to reveal a glaring shortcoming in it.
Verbs for expressing agreement
acknowledge, admire and agree
Verbs for making recommendations
advocate, call for, demand, encourage, exhort, implore, plead, recommend, urge, warn.
Being ___________________________ is one way of being clear of where your position stands.
ambivalent
Verbs for making a claim
argue, assert, believe, claim, emphasize, insist, observe, remind us, report, suggest.
As a general rule, a good summary requires doing what:
balancing what the original author is saying with the writer's own focus
Striking the delicate balance of summarizing is hard because it requires facing two ways at once:
both outward (toward the author being summarize) and inward (toward yourself)
What is one of the most common moves that writers make:
challenging widely accepted beliefs, placing them on the examining table, and analyzing their strengths and weaknesses
Verbs for questioning or disagreeing
complain, complicate, contend, contradict, deny, deplore the tendency to, qualify, question, refute, reject, renounce, repudiate.
Disagreeing is the first thing people associate with ___________________________
critical thinking
This are quotations that have been inserted into a text without a frame that explains to your readers their relevance and meaning are called:
dangling quotations or hit and run ( Steve Benton)
To keep an audience engaged a writer needs to explain what he or she is responding to at what time in the writing?
either before offering the response or very early in the discussion
Good arguments are based not on the knowledge that only a special class of experts has access to, but on what:
everyday habits of mind that can be isolated, identified and used by almost anyone
When in Doubt, Go for it. refers to
explaining quotations
Twist it move
in which you agree with the evidence that someone else has presented but show through a twist of logic that this evidence actually supports your own contrary position
Standard view move
in which you introduce a view that has become so widely accepted that by now it is essentially the conventional way of thinking about a topic
What is a benefit of introducing your argument with an ongoing debate:
it can help you explore the issue you are writing about before declaring your own view. Therefore, it helps you discover where you stand instead of having to commit to a position before you are ready to do so.
Disagreeing requires what:
offering more than a simple assertion that you disagree but persuasive reasons WHY you disagree. Examples of this are: 1. Because another's argument fails to take relevant factors into account 2. Because it is based on faulty or complete evidence 3. Because it rests on questionable assumptions 4. Because it is flawed logic
What is the important thing of agreeing:
open up some difference or contrast between your position and the one you are agreeing with
Quotations are like __________________ words that have been taken from their original contexts and that need to be integrated into their new textual surroundings.
orphans
As a general rule what type of quotations require the most explanatory framing
quotations that are long and complex, that are filled with details or jargon, or that contain hidden complexities
The complexity, subtlety, and originality of your response are more like to stand out and be noticed if:
readers have a baseline sense of where you stand relative to any ideas you have cited.
To keep your reader hooked to your writing use ______________________ sentences that reminds them what are the claims you are responding to.
return
By reminding readers of the ideas you're responding to ,_____________________________ sentences ensure that your text mantains a sense of ____________________ and___________________ from start to finish. They ensure that you give a genuine response to other's views rather than just a set of observations about a given subject.
return, mission and urgency
To do justice to the authors you cite you need use vivid and precise ______________________ ____________________ as often as possible
signal verbs
To be responsive to others and the conversation you are entering you need to do what:
start with what others are saying and continue keeping it in the reader's view
It is always a good tactic to being your response to an argument not by going into details but by:
stating your position go agreement, disagreement or both.
To write a really good summary, you must be able to ___________________ your own beliefs for a time and put yourself in the shoes of someone else.
suspend
What is the view that They Say/ I say is questioning through the entire book:
that good writing means making true or smart or logical statements about a given subject with little or no reference to what others say about it
When a writer fails to provide enough summary or to engage in a rigorous or serious enough summary, he or she often falls prey to the Closest cliché syndrome:
that in which what gets summarized is not the view the author in question has actually expressed but a familiar cliche that the writer mistakes for the authors view
What is the duh move:
that in which you disagree not with the position itself but with the asumption that is a new or stunning revelation.
What is the believing game by Peter Elbow:
that in which you try to inhabit the worldview of those whose conversation you are joining- and whom you perhaps even disagree with- and try to see their argument from their perspective
A key premise of this book is that in order to launch a good argument you need to write:
the arguments of others into your own text
A good summary has a focus or spin that allows the summary to do what:
to stay true to your own agenda while still being true to the text you are summarizing
Im of two minds or mix feelings move
useful when you are responding to a particularly new and challenging work and are yet unsure where do you stand