Academic Writing Midterm

This example of faulty logos makes personal attacks against those who support an opposing position rather than address the position itself

Ad Hominem

This is a claim to which a reasonable person may have disagreements

Arguable

This method by which writers establish Ethos shows that the writer respects her or her audience and their views, and that there is a mutual interest in the topic

Building common ground

These are important considerations to make when "analyzing your rhetorical situation"

Genre, purpose, context, and audience

Doing this not only builds your ethos and demonstrates that you've "done your homework" but that you acknowledge the work of others

Give credit

this person is an expert who is available to assist students with location, evaluating, and contextualizing library source material

Librarian

this resource, available to all students, contains databases, websites, research guides, and a research expert available to help

Library

this documentation style is used in academic writing but other disciplines use others

MLA

Writers invoke this Rhetorical Appeal by using emotional and arguments, figurative language, and appeals to readers values

Pathos

This is the study of art of using language to achieve particular goals

Rhetoric

This "characteristic feature" is usually the first information provided to readers in an analysis

Some description of the subject

Kenneth Burke used a metaphor to compare entering academic and public discourse to entering one of these

a parlor

Two terms refer to key processes when "reading for the conversation" to become informed and develop an opinion about the issue

analyze and synthesis

in addition to being appropriately clear and focused, a writers research question must also meet this criteria

appropriately complex

this kind of information, such as well known historical events or basic scientific facts, does not need acknowledgment as long as it is uncontroversial

common knowledge

Acknowledging these is a way of demonstrating that you're fair and establishing your credibility- but failing to do so can make your argument seem lazy or manipulative

counter arguments

these resources, provided in the library's writing research guide, are compilations of popular, trade and scholarly sources on various issues

databases

writers use this method of incorporating an outside source when the details matter, but not the exact words

paraphrase

MLA requires all quotes and paraphrases to be followed by this

parenthetical citation

in order for a source to be considered "scholarly" it must be published in a journal publication that practices this kind of review

peer review

Failure to properly document outside sources can result in this

plagiarism

The final step in "entering the conversation" challenges you think about questions such as "how do you want to come across to your audience?" and "how can you appear fair and well informed?"

put in your oar

this kind of phrase signals to the reader where a quoted or paraphrase begins

signal phrase