Joseph Harris gets to the point in the first chapter or Rewriting. He offers students a set of strategies for making strong and generous use of the work of other writers in their own prose. He explains what it means…
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Paired Observation Keri Ortiz and Tina Bell
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Keri Ortiz Practicum 5870 Assignment 1 Description Comparison An Apple Computer Displaying Ethereal Education The item to be described is an Apple monitor, keyboard, and mouse displaying a webpage from Ethereal Education at approximately 7:40 on…
Week 2 Commentary #1
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Tina Bell English 5870 Dr. Devries February 24, 2008 Commentary #1 It seems that Victoria Purcell-Gates in her article, “”Ethnographic Research,” not only validates the importance of ethnographic research as a method for studying areas about which little…
5870 Exercise 2 Conduct an Observation with a Partner
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Keri Ortiz and Tina Bell 1.) Tina Bell Computer Monitor, Keyboard and Mouse room 120 The computer monitor is approximately 17 x 14. A thin band of silver surrounds the outside edge creating a border. Inside this silver band, a…
Week 2 – Harris Chap 1
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Maria Shreve Dr. DeVries English 5870 February 24, 2009 In the introduction of Rewriting, Joseph Harris, discusses exactly how intellectuals write in response to text, that is, the work of others. (1) He states that it simply is not enough…
Week 2 — More Classical Greek and Roman Rhetoric
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Aristotle As mentioned already, rhetoric itself was the subject of much debate in classical Greece, with the Sophists on one side and Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle on the other, though they could arguably be classed as Sophists as well. Like…
Exercise 2 — Paired Observation
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Conduct an observation with a partner Decide on a place, a time, and a common frame or question to organize your observation. Make sure you orient yourselves the same way (for example, label people and the objects in the setting…
Exercise 1 – Still Life in Pairs
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Agree on an object and then spend 15 minutes observing and describing it (in writing). Be as descriptive as you can. Write several paragraphs describing the object, first what it’a like, then what you think about it. Use specific details…
Week 1 — Classical Rhetoric, Greek and Roman.
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Isocrates Born in 436 BCE, Isocrates was one of the most influential rhetors of his time, and actually studied with Gorgias and possibly Plato as well. He was concerned with concrete rhetorical problems in which one had to reach a…
Timeline of Classical, Medeival, and Renaissance Rhetoric
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Silva Rhetoricae covers Western Rhetoric and offers many useful resources, including a list of rhetorical devices and their definition, links to rhetorical texts online, information about the history and practice of rhetoric, and a timeline showing the publication of important…