Reading Quiz 10/25/24

What is SPACE (rhetorical situation) an acronym for?

The problem, incident, or situation causing the speaker to create the text. The “spark”.

• Occasion

• Exigence

• Audience

• Constraints

What's an example of context for a rhetorical situation?

• The Civil Rights Movement

• December 7, 1941

• A company CEO delivering a message to employees about upcoming layoffs.

• Economic downturn

What is an example (from your reading or from your outside knowledge) of a time you would synthesize information? [NOT a research paper]

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A synthesis will need to:

• • Summarize and analyze.

• • Show relationships and make connections.

• • Make argumentative points with research.

• All of the above

Analysis

• breaking something down and taking a close look at each of its parts while looking for themes, patterns, and assumptions

• the combination of ideas to form a theory or system

• the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing

• All of the above

Name one of the four essential skills of analysis

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In her Introduction to American Literature course, Letitia is given an assignment to closely read and take notes on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. After completing that step, she is asked to select six sentences that all contribute to the story's mood of horror and fear of the unknown. The process of finding related pieces of evidence that tell us something about the whole text is called

• summary

• evaluation

• analysis

• paraphrase

Which of the following expresses an appropriate understanding of how to think about the relationship of judgment to analysis?

• Judgment can prevent an exploratory, open-minded process of analysis from occurring.

• A judgmental tone sounds more confident, and this will make your paper stronger.

• Judgment is where you'll end up anyway, so you should just stick with the conclusions you've already reached.

• Since your judgment is based on your own real personal experience, it must be valid and will seem that way to your reader.

Pick the strongest thesis statement:

• • I know a lot of parents who are really struggling with the issue of childhood obesity. 

• • The percentage of children in the United States who are obese increased from seven percent in 1980 to nearly 20 percent in 2008 (CDC, 2012). 

• With the number of children with obesity on the rise in the U.S., parents need to be better educated about the causes of childhood obesity

• • There are many solutions to the problem of childhood obesity.