Introduction Of Writing Essays Flashcards
Purpose
To persuade and complete a fair and honest analysis.
Confirmatory evidence
Evidence to support given positions
Personal narratives
Memoirs, autobiographies, creative nonfiction
Informative writing
To Convey information, doesn’t necessarily have to been written in literary and artful manner.
Persuasive writing
Take position and use any tactics to try to persuade an audience.
Good essay
Tries to uncover the truth of a situation and tries to convince in a artful matter
Interpret
Renders one language into an understandable language
Uncover assumptions
Look for assumptions that might not seem like assumptions
Reveal significant patterns
Argue for a pattern and it’s importance. Patterns could be linguistic, thematic, generic or even stylistic,
Reveal patterns breaks
Shows why patterns are not followed and are either purposefully or inadvertently violated.
Recontextualize
Looking at a paper in another context to show how it takes a whole new meaning.
Generalize
Argues that that the system text or artifact ECT, represents a larger more expansive universal.
Argue for effect
Argue for how a paper might impact a reader ECT
Extrapolate
Take the message of a paper and show its silliness, ridiculousness or nonsensicslity through logic “reduction ad absurdum”