Academic evaluation papers require objective criteria and clear reasoning.
Tag: rhetoric
There are two parallel sets of processes involved in academic composition: the mechanical and the rhetorical. The mechanical processes are those that produce writing. The rhetorical processes are those that refine ideas and their presentation to an audience. You cannot separate these activities because each act of writing reflects rhetorical…
Specialized Portals Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/ Open Directory Project http://dmoz.org/ Oxford Digital Library http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/ Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ Writing Resources APA Stylehttp://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resourceshttp://refserver.lib.vt.edu/libinst/critTHINK.HTM Bibliomania http://www.bibliomania.com/ Diana Hacker http://www.dianahacker.com Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary http://www.litencyc.com/ MLA Style http://www.mla.org/set_stl.htm The Online Writery http://www.missouri.edu/~writery/ OWL: Purdue’s Online…
Reasoning in an Academic Paper It’s Academic Students often struggle to understand how academic reasoning differs from the reasoning processes they use in daily life. It is not the reasoning that differs so much as the requirement that all steps in the reasoning process be expressed in a written paper.…
Rhetorical Analysis Steps in Rhetorical Analysis Identify the question being addressed Identify the author’s purpose Observe diction, syntax, examples (anecdotes), structure, and persona Evaluate the effectiveness of strategies at conveying the questions and meeting the author’s purpose Categories of Questions at Issue These are also known as Stasis Questions. Fact…
Rhetoric is the art of testing ideas with people who share our questions. It involves not merely the language we use but all the decisions we make and how to communicate effectively with others. Dictionary Definition: From the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000: (N) 1a.…