ENC 1101 Vocabulary Final Exam
Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Case-Study - ANSWERSdetailed observation and analysis of an event, situation, individual, or small group
of people
Code-Switching - ANSWERSthe practice of alternating between two or more languages or varieties of
languages in conversation
Ethnography - ANSWERSa research methodology for carefully observing and describing people
participating in some activity or culture
Rhetorical Situation - ANSWERSthe particular circumstance of a given instance of communication or
discourse
Literacy/ Literacies - ANSWERSdenoted fluency in a given practice
Literacy Sponsor - ANSWERSa term to describe people, ideas, or institutions that help others become
literate in specific ways
Multi-literacies - ANSWERSmultiple ways of communicating;
Multimodal - ANSWERStexts combining multiple modes, such as alphabetic, visual and aural
Activity System - ANSWERSa group of people who share a common object and motive over time, as well
as the wide range of tools they use together to act on that object and realize that motive
any ongoing, object-directed, historically conditioned, dialectically structured, tool-mediated human
interaction
, Conventions - ANSWERSagreements among people about the best ways to accomplish particular tasks
Discourse Communities - ANSWERSa group of people who are goal oriented, have a purpose, and use a
specific/common language
Enculturate - ANSWERSrefers to the process by which a newcomer learns to become a part of a group of
culture
Genre - ANSWERSrecognizable, self-reinforcing forms of communication; ways to categorize texts
Lexis - ANSWERSspecific vocabulary used by a group or field of study; jargon; the language that you use
to get your message across
Taxis - ANSWERSthe arrangement of words when composing
Argument - ANSWERSany of the many ways by means of which people try to convince others of
something
Audience - ANSWERSanyone who hears or reads a text; anyone a writer imagines encountering his or her
texts
Cognitive - ANSWERSanything having to do with thought or mental activity, the internal thinking process
that writers use to write
Contingent - ANSWERS
Epistemic - ANSWERShaving to do with making or developing new knowledge
Exigence - ANSWERSthe need or reason for a given action or communication
Interlocutor - ANSWERSperson who is involved in the dialogue/ conversation
Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Case-Study - ANSWERSdetailed observation and analysis of an event, situation, individual, or small group
of people
Code-Switching - ANSWERSthe practice of alternating between two or more languages or varieties of
languages in conversation
Ethnography - ANSWERSa research methodology for carefully observing and describing people
participating in some activity or culture
Rhetorical Situation - ANSWERSthe particular circumstance of a given instance of communication or
discourse
Literacy/ Literacies - ANSWERSdenoted fluency in a given practice
Literacy Sponsor - ANSWERSa term to describe people, ideas, or institutions that help others become
literate in specific ways
Multi-literacies - ANSWERSmultiple ways of communicating;
Multimodal - ANSWERStexts combining multiple modes, such as alphabetic, visual and aural
Activity System - ANSWERSa group of people who share a common object and motive over time, as well
as the wide range of tools they use together to act on that object and realize that motive
any ongoing, object-directed, historically conditioned, dialectically structured, tool-mediated human
interaction
, Conventions - ANSWERSagreements among people about the best ways to accomplish particular tasks
Discourse Communities - ANSWERSa group of people who are goal oriented, have a purpose, and use a
specific/common language
Enculturate - ANSWERSrefers to the process by which a newcomer learns to become a part of a group of
culture
Genre - ANSWERSrecognizable, self-reinforcing forms of communication; ways to categorize texts
Lexis - ANSWERSspecific vocabulary used by a group or field of study; jargon; the language that you use
to get your message across
Taxis - ANSWERSthe arrangement of words when composing
Argument - ANSWERSany of the many ways by means of which people try to convince others of
something
Audience - ANSWERSanyone who hears or reads a text; anyone a writer imagines encountering his or her
texts
Cognitive - ANSWERSanything having to do with thought or mental activity, the internal thinking process
that writers use to write
Contingent - ANSWERS
Epistemic - ANSWERShaving to do with making or developing new knowledge
Exigence - ANSWERSthe need or reason for a given action or communication
Interlocutor - ANSWERSperson who is involved in the dialogue/ conversation
