101 Vocab 5

a kind of critical thinking in which a writer identifies patterns, themes, and connections among sources and combines them to make a particular point or to support a claim.

• synthesis

• stance

• secondhand knowledge

• scheme

any information taken from outside sources, including library research and online sources

• secondhand knowledge

• stance

• synthesis

• scheme

a figure of speech that involves a special arrangement of words such as inversion

• scheme

• stance

• synthesis

• secondhand knowledge

actions or judgments in the past that have established a pattern or model for subsequent decisions

• precedents

• paraphrase

• parallelism

• multimodal

a restatement of the meaning of a piece of writing using different words form the original

• paraphrase

• precedents

• parallelism

• multimodal

communication that uses more than one medium to convey its message: text, images, video, sound, and so on.

• multimodal

• metonymy

• inverted word order

• invention

a rhetorical trope in which a writer uses a particular object to stand for a general concept, as in referring to businesspeople as suits or to the English monarchy as the crown.

• metonymy

• inverted word order

• parallelism

• paraphrase

moving grammatical elements of a sentence out of their usual order for special effect ex. Tired I was; sleepy I was not.

• inverted word order

• metonymy

• multimodal

• invention

the process of finding and creating arguments to support a claim

• invention

• inverted word order

• scheme

• precedent

the actual, real life people whom a writer consciously wants to address in a piece of writing

• intended reader

• invention

• inverted word order

• secondhand knowedge