Writing final
What is vivid language, and why is it important to narrative writing?
Vivid language is descriptive language that helps you see things in your mind. Vivid language includes clear and precise word choices, especially precise nouns and verbs. It involves concrete language. It evokes feelings and emotions in the reader.
Explain three rhetorical appeals, and discuss their importance within the rhetorical situation (writer/audience/message)
Ethos shows the writer or speaker’s trustworthiness.
Logos is the usage of reason/logic and evidence.
Pathos is using language that connects with the audience’s beliefs and feelings.
Explain both the meaning and the process of rhetorical analysis. Furthermore, how can engaging in rhetorical analysis improve one’s own writing?
The 3-step process of rhetorical analysis
1.Explain the text’s rhetorical situation- its author, message, audience, etc.
2. Describe the choices/strategies employed by the author.
3. Describe the effects of those choices- do they work, are they relevant, distracting, funny, etc.?
What is a thesis statement? What are the key characteristics or components of an effective thesis statement?
A thesis statement is one or two sentences that provide an overview of an author’s argument.
It must be arguable/debatable and provide a preview and a guide to the author’s main claims.
What is a scholarly source? How does it differ from other sources? How can you tell whether a source is scholarly?
A scholarly source contains its author’s name and credentials, provides the citation information for its sources, and is peer-reviewed and in a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal.
How does one ethically and effectively incorporate others’ ideas into one’s own writing? That is to say, discuss correct source integration as well as attribution/academic integrity.
A paraphrase involves sharing information when exact wording does not matter and might even be a distraction.
Quotation- the source’s exact words.
Quotation sandwich- a quotation must be both led up to and explained after it has been given.
Correct source integration: author, page number, quotation marks.
In active voice, the subject performs the action of the verb.
In passive voice, the object performs the action of the verb.
Passive voice often uses was or by.
Active voice is more forceful.
Passive voice is less confident.
An independent clause is able to stand independently.
A dependent clause does not express a complete thought.
A dependent clause must have a subordinating conjunction or relative pronoun.
A compound sentence must have a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon.
The coordinating conjunctions are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.
A compound sentence has two or more independent clauses and no dependent clauses.
A complex sentence has an independent clause with one or more dependent clauses.
A compound-complex sentence has at least two independent clauses with at least one independent clause.
Parallelism is the use of similar structures in related words, clauses, or phrases.
A rhetorical situation-a writer encounters an opportunity to propose a change through a message for a specific audience within a context.
A rhetorical analysis is an essay that breaks a text (or speech, film, advertisement, etc.) into parts and explains how the parts work together to achieve the author's goal