English 102 Exercise
Please complete the exercise .
Copy the following questions and short answer topics onto a blank document. Answer as indicated adding space as needed but maintaining the current order. Make sure your work is complete; because this is a test, barring technical failure, only one submission may be made.
A: General Backgrounds
1. In the simplest way possible in one sentence, define communication. (2 pts.)
2. List and succinctly describe the three forms or modes of communication. (9 pts.)
3. Define rhetoric. (2 pts.)
4. List the seven rhetorical modes. (7 pts.)
5. List the three rules of rational discourse and succinctly explain their importance. (6 pts.)
6. Define Standard English. What three elements does a proper sentence require? (4 pts.)
B: Identifying Foundational Concepts – Truth, Evidence, & Argument
1. Define “truth” in its formal sense, tell how this differs from “ordinary language,” explain its relation to belief and knowledge, and describe the three categories of belief regarding the ultimate source of truth noting which is the standard in formal academic work. 20 pts.
2. What is the subjective/objective problem and how does it relate to essay writing? (Succinctly discuss landscape and inscape and invention in essay writing related to a writer’s ethical obligation.) 10 pts.
3. Succinctly describe Michael Shermer’s use of the terms agenticity and patternicity. With brief examples, do you agree or disagree? 5 pts.
C: Foundational Concepts/Definitions
1. Academic argument depends on Legitimate Propositions. Why? Define the concept. 9 pts.
Succinctly define the following terms in the best brief way; 1 point each.
2. Frontloading:
3. Excerpt:
4. Topic:
5. Thesis:
6. Plagiarism:
7. Euphemism:
8. Anecdote:
9. Jargon:
10. Redundancy:
11. MLA:
12. Documentation:
D: Argument Theory
1. Succinctly explain the three matters and four appeals in Classical or Aristotelian Argument . 15 pts.
2. Explain the foundational principle of Rogerian Argument Theory. Does it guarantee agreement? 5 pts.
3. What are the two foundational concepts of Toulmin Argument Theory and how do both or either one differ from the way argument is usually conceived in ordinary language? 5 pts.
E. Concepts: upload a term or letter to Blackboard; 1 pt. each.
1. Anything that exists only as an idea is said to be __________________.
2. Anything that exists in matter/energy is said to be __________________.
3. A short amusing or instructive story about a real incident or person: ____ . a) joke
b) excerpt c) except d) anecdote e) antidote f) analemma g) none of these
4. Secondary sources are never as trustworthy as primary sources. [ ] T [ ] F
5. Propaganda is never based on truth. [ ] T [ ] F
6. The history of a word:____ a) entomology b) enterology c) analogy d) none of these
7. Anything that stands for or means more than it is:__________________.
8. Regional speech:____. a) dialog b) dialect c) diorama d) diarrhea e) diatryma
9. To rephrase as briefly as possible without changing meaning: _________________
10. To put into different words to help clarify: _________________________
11. The best explanation we have currently for a set of facts: ________________
12. Facts are fixed, absolute items of knowledge: [ ] T [ ] F
13. Ambiguity: _____ a) can be understood in more than one way b) the misuse of MLA rules of style c) unintentional vagueness d) humor at the expense of another
14. A direct witness is best described as: _____ a) a tertiary source b) a final source
c) a proper source d) a peripatetic source e) a primary source f) none of these
15. A passage taken from a work, usually short but longer than an ordinary quote: _____
a) excerpt b) except c) anecdote d) antidote e) analemma f) all of these
