Midterm

Question 1

Thesis

Answer 1

What your paper is going to be based on.

Question 2

Logos

Answer 2

using reasoning to make your paper understandable

Question 3

Pathos

Answer 3

• appeal to emotion.
• It allows reader to connect to the audience (Ex. In real life you connect to human through emotion as well
• Not that much used in academic paper because suppose to use reasoning/logic, statistics, but still used in papers to persuade audience
• It exist to connect with people but you can’t lead with pathos in your paper.

Question 4

Ethos

Answer 4

• Credibility.
• Proving your audience should trust you.
• Good way to express credibility is having flawless grammar, syntax, sentence structure, giving people credit on paper.

Question 5

Summary

Answer 5

• MAIN POINTS get the main then you concisely put it in your paper with the same meaning that it has from where you got it from.

Question 6

Paraphrase

Answer 6

Putting your own words in a sentence without going away from the meaning of the sentence.

Question 7

Transitions

Answer 7

Guides reader throughout the essay so they don’t lose their/your thought.

Question 8

What does a claim need to become an argument?

Answer 8

OPINION

Question 9

9. What is an analogy?

Answer 9

reference comparison of two things they fall in the same point.
Example - Sun and moon, Day and night.

Question 10

10. Synthesis of ideas

Answer 10

Combining ideas to form a theory(thesis) or system.

Question 11

11. Rhetorical Situation

Answer 11

Each individual rhetorical situation shares five basic elements with all other rhetorical situations:

A text (i.e., an actual instance or piece of communication, your genre)

An author (i.e., someone who uses communication)

An audience (i.e., a recipient of communication)

Purposes (i.e., the varied reasons both authors and audiences communicate)

A setting (i.e., the time, place, and environment surrounding a moment of communication)

Question 12

12. What is an Argument?

Answer 12

Convo with a goal-seeks to advance the conversation already in progress

• Takes stand on an arguable issue, not on facts
• Uses reasons and evidence
• Recognizes the topic’s complexity- ethical concerns/public policy issues
  - moral, ethical, philosophical complication
  - more than one right answer

Question 13

13. Counterargument

Answer 13

• Best arguments include counterargument
  - discussing the possible arguments against you helps:
  a. check your answers, your ideas
  b. presents you as someone who weighs alternatives before arguing for one

Question 14

15. Objective

Answer 14

• FACTS. Other points are stated (fully comprehend both sides).
• Most used in academic papers.

Question 15

14. Subjective

Answer 15

• Opinion base.

- usually used in an every-day argument between people.