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| 14983438093 | Rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, Specific purpose and a specific audience in mind. | 0 | |
| 14983460028 | The Rhetorical Situation | The set of circumstances that influence the text. | 1 | |
| 14983477170 | SO2AP2s | Helps assess Rhetorical situations of text. | 2 | |
| 14983487302 | Speaker | the person or group who creates a text | 3 | |
| 14983497915 | Rhetorical Appeals | Rhetorical techniques used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find most important or compelling. The three major appeals are to ethos (character), logos (reason), and pathos (emotion). | 4 | |
| 14983506358 | Ethos | beliefs or character of a group, also credibility | 5 | |
| 14983513833 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 6 | |
| 14983525620 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 7 | |
| 14983532817 | Occasion | the time and place a speech is given or a piece is written, includes circumstances attitudes, and events surrounding the time | 8 | |
| 14983563064 | Context | Broad influence surrounding text, historical, cultural, and social movements at the time. | 9 | |
| 14983584433 | Exigence | an issue, problem, or situation that causes or prompts someone to write or speak | 10 | |
| 14983588704 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 11 | |
| 14983598325 | Speaker's Purpose | speaker or writer's intentions, the effect they hope to have on the reader/listener. | 12 | |
| 14983603322 | Claims | state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof. | 13 | |
| 14983613242 | Intended Effect | What the speaker wants the effect to be | 14 | |
| 14983621838 | Actual Effect | How the Audience really responds to the text | 15 | |
| 14983635337 | Strategic Choices | AKA Rhetorical choices, methods a speaker uses to reach goal and ultimately the audience. Organization is the #1 way. | 16 | |
| 14983664992 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 17 | |
| 14983669959 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 18 | |
| 14983674446 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. | 19 | |
| 14983678789 | Refutation | a denial of the validity of an opposing argument | 20 | |
| 14983678790 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 21 | |
| 14983688230 | Propaganda | Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. | 22 | |
| 14983688231 | Polemic | an aggressive argument against a specific opinion | 23 | |
| 14983693677 | Humour | the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech. | 24 | |
| 14983705033 | Satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. | 25 | |
| 14983879157 | Rhetorical Triangle | A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text. | 26 | |
| 15102274833 | Arguement | a series of statements in a text designed to convince us of something. | 27 | |
| 15102281819 | Discourse | written or spoken communication or debate | 28 | |
| 15102287175 | Rogerian Argument | based on the assumption that having a full understanding of an opposing position is essential to responding to it persuasively and refuting it in a way that is ACCOMODATING RATHER THAN ALLIENATING | 29 | |
| 15123099024 | Claim of Fact | A claim of fact asserts that something is true or not true. | 30 | |
| 15123103943 | Claim of Value | argues that something is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or not desirable. | 31 | |
| 15448079481 | claim of policy | proposes a change. | 32 | |
| 15448086351 | argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence | 33 | |
| 15448089154 | dicourse | written or spoken communication or debate | 34 | |
| 15448094216 | implicit | (adj.) implied or understood though unexpressed; without doubts or reservations, unquestioning; potentially contained in | 35 | |
| 15448094217 | explicit | clearly stated or shown; forthright in expression | 36 | |
| 15448097950 | closed thesis | a statement of the main idea of the argument that also previews the major points the writer intends to make | 37 | |
| 15448107311 | open thesis | one that does not list all the points the writer intends to cover in an essay | 38 | |
| 15448110180 | counterargument thesis | a summary of the counterargument, usually qualified by although or but, precedes the writer's opinion | 39 | |
| 15448127689 | relevant evidence | Evidence tending to make a fact at issue in the case more or less probable than it would be without the evidence. Only relevant evidence is admissible in court. | 40 | |
| 15448130895 | accurate evidence | Taking care to quote sources correctly without misrepresenting what the sources are saying or taking the information out of context. | 41 | |
| 15448135033 | Sufficient Evidence | Proof. Anything that can make a person believe that a fact or proposition is true or false. | 42 | |
| 15448149365 | first-hand evidence | Evidence based on something the writer knows, whether it's from personal experience, observations, or general knowledge of events. | 43 | |
| 15448153652 | personal experience | A short story about an experience in your life that is relevant to the writing topic. Example: "As a child I was deathly afraid of water, so naturally I joined the swim team." | 44 | |
| 15448156954 | anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 45 | |
| 15448163854 | current events | situations happening right now around the world | 46 | |
| 15448168709 | second-hand evidence | Evidence that is accessed through research, reading, and investigation. It includes factual and historical information, expert opinion, and quantitative data. | 47 | |
| 15448168869 | Historical Information | Documents and data on prior projects including project files, records, correspondence, closed contracts, and closed projects. | 48 | |
| 15448177788 | Expert Opinion | recommendations of individuals who have expertise in a particular area that are sometimes the basis of a group's decision-making process | 49 | |
| 15448182307 | quantitative evidence | includes things that can be measured, cited, counted, or otherwise represented in numbers | 50 | |
| 15448187717 | The classical arrangement of argument | made up of five components, which are most commonly composed in the following order: Exordium - The introduction, opening, or hook. Narratio - The context or background of the topic. Proposito and Partitio - The claim/stance and the argument. | 51 | |
| 15448201840 | Induction | factual reasoning | 52 | |
| 15448204977 | deduction | the process of moving from a general rule to a specific example | 53 | |
| 15448231594 | major premise | the first part of a syllogism, consisting of a general statement about the subject of your argument | 54 | |
| 15448231595 | minor premise | a statement about a specific case related to the general characteristics of the major premise | 55 | |
| 15448231596 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 56 | |
| 15458282604 | Toulmin Model | An approach to analyzing and constructing arguments: Because (evidence as support), therefore (claim), since (warrant or assumption), on account of (backing), unless (reservation). | 57 |
