Across
- 2. A statement of the number of reasons you will use to support your thesis statement.
- 6. The statement of the proposition defended by an essay. A thesis is derived from a question when the writer: 1) converts the question to an issue, 2) decides which side to defend, and 3) restates the issue as a statement representing the affirmative or negative position.
- 8. In writing, it is the ending of a text. it is prepared after the body of the text, and before the Introduction.
- 9. The canon of composition by which the author orders the materials gathered in the Invention canon in a manner suited to the type essay being written. It is sometimes called dispositio.
- 10. The third canon of rhetoric in which the writer selects the appropriate words and forms to best express the ideas of the text. This canon is also called Style.
- 11. A statement of the main points in an essay or speech.
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- 1. The three fundamental activities of writing. They are Invention, Arrangement, and Elocution.
- 3. The first part of an essay, developed after the body and the Conclusion of the essay are written.
- 4. A question converted to a whether statement. The Issue serves to generate questions about both the affirmative and negative responses to the questions. Students generate a new issue for each new essay.
- 5. The opening of an essay or speech, placed at the beginning of the introduction. Its purpose is to make the audience receptive to the speech or essay so they will listen.
- 7. The first canon of rhetoric during which the writer discovers material (an inventory) for the text. This canon is also called Discovery, coming up with something to say when we write.
- 12. This term has two uses in The Lost tools of Writing: 1) The body of an essay; it contains the main arguments or reasons, with their supports, for the thesis. 2) The main reasons that make up the "proof" of the first sense. Each main reason includes three "sub-proofs".