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Essays and their Parts Flashcards

1
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Tells a story by presenting events in an orderly, logical sequence

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Narration

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2
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Tells readers about the physical characteristics of a person, place or thing

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Description

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3
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You focus on the object itself rather than on your personal reactions to it.

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Objective Description

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4
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Conveys your personal response to your subject.

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Subjective Description

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5
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Uses particular cases, or examples, to illustrate or explain a general point or an abstract concept.

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Exemplification

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6
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Explains how to do something or how something occurs

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Process

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7
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The purpose of ___________ is to enable readers to perform a process.

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Instructions

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8
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The purpose of a ____________ is not to enable readers to perform a process but rather to help them understand how it is carried out.

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Process explanation

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9
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Analyzes why something happens

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Cause and Effect

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10
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Another name for most important

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Main cause

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11
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Another name for less important

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Contributory cause

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12
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Closely precedes an effect and is therefore relatively easy to recognize

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Immediate cause

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13
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Is less obvious, perhaps because it involves something in the past or far away

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Remote cause

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14
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Where A causes B, B causes C, C causes D, and so on.

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Casual Chain

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15
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How two or more things are similar or different

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Compare and Contrast

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16
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You essentially write a separate section about each subject, and you discuss the same points for both subjects

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Subject-by-Subject comparison (compare and contrast essay)

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17
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You make a point about one subject and then follow it with a comparable point about the other.

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Point-by-point comparison (compare and constant)

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18
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Breaking the whole into parts

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Division

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19
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Sorting individual items into categories

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Classification

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20
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What a term means and how it differs from other terms in its class

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Definition

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21
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Most people think definitions in terms of print or online dictionaries, which give brief, succinct explanations of what words mean. What type of definition is this?

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Formal definition

22
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Sometimes a definition requires a paragraph, an essay, or even a whole book. These longer, more complex definitions are called __________.

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Extended definitions

23
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Word with similar meanings

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Synonyms

24
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Telling what it is not

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Negation

25
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Identifying similarities between an unfamiliar term and something likely to be more familiar to readers.

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Analogy

26
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Listing its characteristics

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Enumeration

27
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The word’s derivation, original meaning, and usages.

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Origin and development

28
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A process of reasoning that asserts the soundness of a debatable position, belief, or a conclusion.

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Argumentation

29
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A general term that refers to how a writer influences an audience to adopt a belief or follow a course of action.

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Persuasion

30
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Appeals based on emotion

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Pathos

31
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Appeals based on logic

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Logos

32
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Appeals based on the character reputation of the writer.

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Ethos

33
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The appeal to reason (logos)

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Argumentation

34
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Facts and opinions in support of your position

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Evidence

35
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Statements that people generally agree are true and that can be verified independently.

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Facts

36
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Judgements or beliefs that are not substantiated by proof.

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Opinions

37
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Opinions of experts in a relevant field

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Expert opinions

38
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In the final analysis, what is important is not just the quality of the evidence but also the ___________ of the person offering it

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Credibility

39
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You enter into a cooperative relationship with opponents instead of aggressively refuting opposing arguments, you emphasize points of agreement and try to find common ground.

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Rogerian argument

40
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A method to move from evidence to a conclusion. Proceeds from a general premise or assumption to a specific conclusion.

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Deductive reasoning

41
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A method to move from evidence to a conclusion. Proceeds firm individual observations to a more general conclusion and uses no strict form.

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Inductive reasoning

42
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The basic form of a deductive argument

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Syllogism

43
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A syllogism consists of a ___________, which is a general statement

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Major premise

44
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More specific statement and part of a syllogism

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Minor premise

45
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Part of a syllogism. Drawn from the major and minor premise’s.

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Conclusion

46
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The crucial step from evidence to conclusion.

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Inductive step

47
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Another approach for structuring arguments. This method tries to describe how the argumentative strategies a writer uses lead readers to respond the way they do.

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Toulmin logic

48
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The main point of the essay

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Claim

49
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The material a writer uses to support the claim - can be evidence or appeals to the emotions of values of the audience.

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Grounds

50
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The inference that connects the claim to the grounds.

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Warrant

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