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Undergraduate 2
12/02/2013

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Rhetoric
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Language or images that intend to argue a certain position. In science the rhetorical evidence can be thought of as the data
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Rhetorical Situation
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Arguable circumstance in which a scientist speaks or presents their work
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Audience
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Targeted reader or viewer encountering a scientist's work.
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Purpose
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Tell audience the reason why you are communicating to them about the experiment. Can be thought of as what you want the audience to know.
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Author Ethos
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The author's credibility or authority
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Orality
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The idea that oral language differs from written language. Speech has different conventions. Use of repetition
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Visual Representation of Data
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The content that allows the author to visually convey information to the audience
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Content
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Choices of information that will convey the most amount of information possible to the target audience.
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Structure
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Allows content to be displayed in a logical order
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Style
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The way in which language is used. Involves language choices such as jargon, syntax and tone.
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