Week 5

Question 1

Which is a decent research question?

Accepted Answer

What are the mental health effects of social media on young adults?

Question 2

True or False: You cite something you paraphrase

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

What is paraphrasing?

Accepted Answer

a detailed rewrite of a part of an original source in your own words

Question 4

A professor asks you to write a 5 page paper on art from the 70s...what topic has an appropriate scope?

Accepted Answer

Los Angeles murals from 1975-1960

Question 5

Why do you "frame" a subject?

Accepted Answer

it helps you manage audience expectations, It will keep you on track as you research and draft, It will help you stay focused and prevent you from wasting time

Question 6

A professor asks you to write a 12 page paper about culture and American sports...what topic has an appropriate scope?

Accepted Answer

Parasocial relationships with Tom Brady from 2010-2024

Question 7

What is invention?

Accepted Answer

Information retrieval and synthesis

Question 8

What factors are in a rhetorical situation?

Accepted Answer

Audience, Message, Writer, Setting, Culture

Question 9

A professor asks you to write a 8 page paper about film in the 21st century...what topic has an appropriate scope?

Accepted Answer

The over-sexualization of robots and tech in Her and Ex Machina

Question 10

What is a summary?

Accepted Answer

A significant reduction of a large part of a source to its main points

Question 11

What is a stasis question?

Accepted Answer

A question (or series of questions) used to examine complex problems

Question 12

What is audience?

Accepted Answer

The people you are attempting to persuade, a person you are attempting to persuade

Question 13

Which answer is NOT a stasis question category?

Accepted Answer

Questions of personal experience

Question 14

What is rhetorical stasis?

Accepted Answer

When two people, or a person and audience come to an agreement

Question 15

What is a secondary stasis question?

Accepted Answer

a question for examination once you discover where the audience disagrees

Question 16

What is scope?

Accepted Answer

limitations of context, subjects, events, ideas when developing your topic

Question 17

You cite a summary in an essay

Accepted Answer

True

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