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| Significant/important concept/ideas of how to do things | Prestige abstraction |
| Language about language | Metadiscourse |
| Intro is knowledge filled: formal and scholarly | Epistemic intro |
| Intro is personal and less formal: can still be scholarly | Anecdotal intro |
| Draws interest into the paper (points to thesis) | Allusive phrase (title) |
| Informs reader what kind of paper and what paper is on | Explanatory phrase (title) |
| Looking at background info and history of topic | Tradition of inquiry |
| Analogy for network of past sources (intertwined) | Ecological analogy (tradition of inquiry) |
| Give an idea to reader what discussion will be about | Specific forecasting (intro) |
| Narration, description, cause and effect, comparison, etc. | Methods of development (examples) |
| Thesis: position on topic, and premise: evidence for claim | 2 components of an argument |
| The dictionary definition | Denotation (of a word) |
| Implied cultural meaning | Connotation (of a word) |
| FANBOYS: linking words (you can join 2 sentences together) | Grammatical coordination |
| Taking a sentence and adding something at the beginning to make it a fragment that needs another clause | Grammatical subordination |
| Citation/reference | Documentation |
| The omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used (she drank rum, vodka, tequila) | Asyndeton |
| Exposition (teaching), logos, ethos, pathos | 4 parts of persuasion |
| Subject and verb pushed to end of the sentence | Periodic sentence |
| Subject and verb in beginning of the sentence | Cumulative sentence |
| A verb that does not take an object ("Max will sleep for 8 hours") | Intransitive verbs |
| Use the "to" form of verb | Infinitive phrases (verbal phrases) |
| Use of present/past participle | Participial phrases (verbal phrases) |
| Use of present participle with 'ing' | Gerund phrases (verbal phrases) |
| Restates conclusion rather than offering a real premise | Circular reasoning |
| No logical relation between connected ideas | Non sequitur |
| Argument based only on emotion | Appeal to pity |
| Jumping to a conclusion | Hasty generalization |
| Oversimplification | Reductive fallacy |
| Coincidence that we see as causation | Post hoc fallacy |