This week's vocab

Rhetorical Terms

I was searching the web for information and strategies to help me with my essays involving rhetoric when I came across this document. It lists various rhetorical terms that you can use in your essays. Hope you find it as helpful as I did!
-Matthew Ayala
http://www.prosseracademy.org/ourpages/auto/2008/2/4/1202184735622/Rhetorical%20Terms.doc

AF: A Reflective Essay >> Multiple Choice Monday

A reflective essay written about an assignment merely means that you think about the work, and write about the challenges and successes you experienced as you completed the work.

For the Multiple Choice Monday Reflective Essay, I want a ONE-PAGE, single-spaced 12-point Times Roman essay with an MLA heading (also single-spaced); it's a real essay, that is exactly one page long.  Do not stop before you get to the bottom of the page; do not go over one page.  Learn to develop, and then edit to achieve one-inch margins all around. This assignment also asks that you follow the conventions of writing:  developed paragraphs, complete sentences, capital letters and commas and end-punctuation, and all of the things you know!  

Sometimes, students hear the word "reflective," and they decide that this means they can ramble on like crazy people, and write one big paragraph that ignores the rules of written English.  

This is not what "reflective" means.

"Reflective" means you think about yourself as a learner.  Here are some things I would like to know, but don't go through this list and answer every question like a little machine -- use the questions to get you thinking:

• Because you know your work is not going into the gradebook as a test score, do you find yourself not trying as hard?  Explain.
• How is your focus as you read through the passages?  When you find that you have lost focus, what do you do?
• Did you find yourself getting talked out of answers that you had initially had correct?  Or are you the one who talks your partner out of their correct answer?
• During class on Tuesday, look through the entire packet to review the questions you got wrong. Does there seem to a pattern, or a type of question that you tend to miss?
• To what degree is vocabulary messing you up?  What kind of vocabulary gets in your way:  literary/rhetorical vocabulary? adjectives and adverbs? 
• How successfully are you reading for tone?
• How many did you get correct?
• What can you do independently to improve your performance on this assessment?

Type this up so that I can collect it on Wednesday.  Thanks!