Rhetoric- art of persuasion

critical theory- theory we operate under the assumption that a person is fully human no matter what their gender ,race , age , ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.

Affordance-something a design enables you to do

constraint-something a design restricts you from doing

Genre – a type of something

convention – characteristics that define a genre

Blog – genre / type of writing

paraphrase- communicating your understanding of the original text.

claim- A statement put forth as true that needs evidence to be convincing.

Thesis- main claim of an argument.