Monthly Archives: February 2009

James’s reply to Carolyn Frank

  Response to Carolyn Frank’s, “An Ethnographic Perspective:”   I read this with interest and was impressed by Frank’s ability to identify the cultural bias in her perspective through reading other people’s interpretation of events. Most people do not do…

Purcell-Gates reading response

While I have long been familiar with ethnographic research due to my background in sociology, this essay struck me as being very useful to both the novice, and to the experienced ethnographer because it covers the field in enough detail…

Week 3 — Classical Chinese Rhetoric

Lu Xing Associate Professor in the Department of Communications at DePaul University and the author of Rhetoric in Ancient China: Fifth to Third Century B.C.E.: A Comparison with Classical Greek Rhetoric, Lu has also published many journal articles and book…

Week #2: Ethnographic Perspective

Carol Frank’s article really made an impression on me relevant to my upcoming classroom ethnographic observation.  Frank’s use of comparison between the student-teachers and her own notes was impressive.  I could see myself being tempted to say “the classroom was…

Isocrates, Antidosis

Aaron Arias English 5001 Dr. Kim Devries Spring 2009   Isocrates, Antidosis   Isocrates is being accused of corrupting the youth of the land for educating them in a manner that creates independent thinkers (Sounds familiar, maybe it is a…

Paired Observation

Ned Weidner Paired Observation ENGL 5870            2/26/09   The Ways People Interact   530 @ Mom’s Café CSU Stanislaus Watching the café counter and the way people order coffee and the workers behind the counter. Scene: There is a Mom’s…

Purcell-Gates Commentary #1

Ned Weidner ENGL 5870 Dr. DeVries 2/26/09   I had never heard the word ethnography before until about six months ago when I was introduced to two Raymond Williams books Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society and Writing Culture. …

Impeding Argument – Commentary

In this address, Isocrates has several main agendas. He aims to describe the human body, particularly the mind, and how practice and training can condition it. He also implicitly lays out the steps for success under his instruction, stresses the…

Pheadrus and Gorgias – 5001

The dialectics from Phaedrus and Gorgias express the nature and art of rhetoric. From the readings of Phaedrus and gorgias I found more matter from the dialogues in Phaedrus , however, there were some useful ideas in Gorgias as well.…

Isocrates, Antidosis

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