Comp II Final Exam

Question 1

What are the three rhetorical appeals?

Accepted Answer

appeals to character (or trustworthiness), emotion, reason, ethos, pathos, and logos

Question 2

What does the word "panacea" mean?

Accepted Answer

an oversimplification fallacy involving a single solution, a cure all

Question 3

How are the titles of books indicated and how are the titles of articles indicated?

Accepted Answer

with italics; with quotation marks

Question 4

What does "cohesion" mean?

Accepted Answer

using main ideas to hold paragraphs and papers together, held together well

Question 5

What does it mean to put sources into dialog with one another?

Accepted Answer

showing similarities & differences between sources/positions, comparing and contrasting what various experts have said

Question 6

What is a panacea?

Accepted Answer

claiming if we just do one thing the problem will be solved, a cure all

Question 7

What is one example of an unethical appeal to pathos, according to Aristotle?

Accepted Answer

appealing to an audiences sense of hate or bigotry, fear mongering or appealing to an audience's fear

Question 8

What does "rhetorical exigence" mean?

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the reason an author felt the need to sit down an write now, the reason an issue needs to be addressed at now

Question 9

What does the word "kairos" mean?

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timeliness, seizing the moment for optimal rhetorical affect

Question 10

What is a red herring logical fallacy?

Accepted Answer

an error in reasoning that obfuscates rather than clarifies, a tactic used to distract, rather than get at the truth

Question 11

What is an ad hominen logical fallacy

Accepted Answer

avoiding the issue by attacking the character of an indivual, it's an error in thinking that distracts, rather than helps

Question 12

What's an either/or logical fallacy?

Accepted Answer

oversimplifying an issue to only two choices, making your audience choose between two extremes, a false binary

Question 13

What are the elements of the rhetorical situation?

Accepted Answer

purpose, context, audience, and exigence

Question 14

What are three ways we can increase the coherence of our writing, according to They Say/I Say?

Accepted Answer

transitions, pointing words, key terms

Question 15

What is a post hoc logical fallacy?

Accepted Answer

assuming a faulty cause and effect relationship, assuming one thing caused another when they may be unrelated

Question 16

What are the elements of the rhetorical situation?

Accepted Answer

purpose, context, audience, and exigence

Question 17

What would an internal citation look like if you used the author's name in an attributive tag?

Accepted Answer

page number in parenthesis

Question 18

What is the "echo chamber effect"?

Accepted Answer

exposure only to ideas one already ascribes to

Question 19

True or false: All academic writing should have an argument?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

What is the proper use of the semi-colon?

Accepted Answer

To connect two closely related sentences, To separate the items in a list in a sentence

Question 21

What is a "hanging indent" and where is it used?

Accepted Answer

your end citation page in both MLA and APA, the second line of a source indented

Question 22

What is a logical fallacy?

Accepted Answer

errors in thinking, errors in reason

Question 23

What's a "hit and run" or orphan quote?

Accepted Answer

a quote without any explanation, interpretation or analysis, a quote that is not tied into the writer's ideas or writing

Question 24

What is critical thinking?

Accepted Answer

questioning all assumptions and positions, basing conclusions on evidence and sound reason

Question 25

What does it mean to "address the counter-argument"?

Accepted Answer

conceding a point that your readers may have in opposition, giving a nod to the opposition, anticipating possible opposition to your argument

Question 26

What are the three ways we incorporate our research, the "they say," the positions of others?

Accepted Answer

paraphrase, summary, and direct quotation

Question 27

What is a post hoc logical fallacy?

Accepted Answer

assuming a cause and effect relationship when there is none, assuming a faulty cause and effect relationship

Question 28

What's the difference between revising and editing?

Accepted Answer

one deals with global issues and one deals with local issues, large order concerns, and then small order concerns

Question 29

What is inductive reasoning?

Accepted Answer

reasoning from a specific case to draw a broad conclusion

Question 30

What is deductive reasoning?

Accepted Answer

reasoning that moves from general to specific

Question 31

How would you write an internal citation in MLA?

Accepted Answer

author's last name, space, page number

Question 32

What does the CRAAP test mean?

Accepted Answer

Currency, Relevancy, authority, accuracy, and Purpose

Question 33

What does the word "coherence" mean?

Accepted Answer

easy to follow and sensical, logically moving from one sentence and idea to the next

Question 34

What does the word "ambivalence" mean?

Accepted Answer

admitting that you don't know, and are of at least two minds

Question 35

What are the elements of a formal argument?

Accepted Answer

claims, reasons, and evidence

Question 36

What does it mean to "frame" a quote?

Accepted Answer

to avoid a hit and run or orphan quote

Question 37

Can you both agree and disagree with some of what a source is saying?

Accepted Answer

yes

Question 38

What is an example of unethical research?

Accepted Answer

finding sources that already only agree with your opinion, plagiarizing or not giving credit to someone for their ideas, failing to evaluate and consider all possible perspectives

Question 39

What is a syllogism?

Accepted Answer

Aristotle's invention for reasoning, one excellent way to appeal to logic or logos, an enthymeme with the middle part stated, a three part reasoning that moves from general to specific

Question 40

What is a claim?

Accepted Answer

a statement that someone could argue with

Comp II Final Exam

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Comp II Final Exam

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