WRA-130 Ellie Jensen

listening and taking notes, use your own words, leave space in your notes if you miss something, review shortly your notes after class, writing while reading, previewing, reading twice

summarizing: understand the meaning, distill each section, central idea, support for the central idea, use your own words

becoming an academic writer: know the writing situation in each assignment, develop and organize your writing, synthesize your own and others' ideas, revise and edit your writing, achnowledge your sources

preparing for exams: reviewing and memorizing the material, organizing summaries of the material. testing yourself

use techniques of critical reading: previewing the material, reading and summarizing in your own words

developing a critical response: analyzing, interpresting, synthesizing, evaluation

RIADS: revising, arrangmenet, invention, delivery and style

viewing images critically: previewing an image, reading an image, analyzing an image, interpresting an image, synthesizing ideas about an image, evaluating an image, analyzing multimedia with RAIDS

writing in response to texts, deciding how to respond and forming a response, emphasizing synthesis in your response

determining purpose, clarify your subject and purpose

analyzing audience: achademic writingg, usually intructors are your audience

choosing structure/ content: thesis, support, synthesize, sourcing, organize

academic language: dialect- standard american english, formal vs. imformal, aviod too casual, too wordy, slang, reading academic writing helps

argument: solve problem, change readers opinions, call to action, some cutlures aviod being caught

elements of argument: the subject, claims, evidence, assumptions

writing reasonably: logical thinking, rational, emotional, and ethical appeals, acknowledgement of opposing views

writing reasonably fallacies- errors in argument: non sequitur, red herring, appeal to readrs fera, bandwagon, ad hominem

oversimplifications- things to avoid: generalizations, reductive fallacy, post Hoc fallacy- oversimplifying cause and effect, post Hoc fallacy- assuming events are related, either/ or fallacy- assuming an issue has only two answers

organzing an argument- introduction, body, response, concluson and possbile arrangements

using visual arguemnts- claims, evidence, assumptions and appeals, recognizing fallacies, choice of images

onling writing, emails, collaboration

email: addressing messages, composing messages, reading and responding to messages

collaboration: participating in discussions, working on drafts

creating web com