03.07 Writing Your Argument Review

In writing, an outline provides a ________ where your ideas about a topic can grow.

• source

• framework

• argument

• thesis

There is a video to watch on page 2. In your own words, how can the video help you?

Your body paragraphs not should have a mix of direct quotations and paraphrases for support.

• True

• False

Match the following

• Direct Quotation

• By paying money for volunteer opportunities, voluntourists create a demand for the bad circumstances that they think they are saving animals from (Rolfe).

• NOT a Paraphrase

• Voluntourists “…encourage a cycle of exploiting the very animals that volunteers are trying to help” (Rolfe).

• Effective Paraphrase

• Voluntourists create a cycle of exploiting the very creatures that volunteers are trying to assist (Rolfe).

To go from an outline to developed paragraphs, take your planned ideas and expand on them by adding:

• details, explanations of support, and thesis statement

• hook, explanations of support, and connecting thoughts

• details, transition words, and connecting thoughts

• details,

  explanations of support, and

  connecting thoughts

Which one cannot add to the effectiveness of your body paragraphs?

• figurative language

• purposeful repetition

• rhetorical questions

• hooking the audience

Match the following transition words to the elements

• Contrasting thought

• nevertheless

• Indicate a sequence of time

• despite

• Elaborate

• clearly; then; additionally

• Indicate a relationship

• then; as soon as

Why is revisiting your body paragraphs and reading your paragraphs out loud important?

What is not needed in an internal, or in-text, citations?

• source

• quote

• author's name

• page number

Match the following

• Rhetorical Questioning

• When a speaker wants you to remember something, he or she will repeat it.

• Figurative Language

• When a speaker uses it, audiences are more likely to feel confident that the speech is reliable.

• Repetition

• You are expected to answer. Instead, you are supposed to think about it quietly on your own.

• Quotations

• Creating images and emotions, which cause audiences to listen, relate, think, and act.