Alexander Bain’s excerpt from “English Composition and Rhetoric” fascinated me as I saw in it the roots of contemporary composition and grammar that was taught to me in grade school. In this excerpt, Bain breaks out principles and rules of…
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Bain and Rhetoric
by Adam • • 0 Comments
In Bain’s English Composition and Rhetoric we are presented with a complete break down of the parts involved in rhetoric. He divides these based on what each is intended to influence. For, instance poetics is a form of rhetoric intended…
Commentary 4: Vico
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Mistakes and Trying on Discourse The part of this essay that struck a chord with me comes from page 19 where he says. “They would not feel the impulse to step rashly into discussions while they are still in the…
What can ambition give?
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Francis bacon wanted to reconstruct the sciences of man in order to make them more accessible and up to date. He knew that man as a species is limited in how much capacity he has to adjust to new systems,…
The three heads of persuasion
by dhamilton3 • • 3 Comments
In On the Study Methods of Our Time, G. Vico intrigued me with his idea of eloquence. This was echoed by Alexander Bain in his English Composition and Rhetoric. I’d like to use this journal entry to analyze their mutual…
The incoherence of the incoherence
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The Incoherence of the Incoherence According to the reading , Ghazali has his own viewpoint about God. He disagrees that God is the agent . According to Ghazali an agent must be willing, choosing and knowing and God does not…
The Circle of Education
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Mike Calou Commentary Week Five In the excerpt from the “Study Methods of Our Time”, Giambattista Vico is comparing the study methods of the ancients with the modern (18th century) methods. Vico says that the ancient methods had merit. The…
class log 3/10/09
by nweidner • • 0 Comments
Log: ENGL 5870 3/10/09 Room: Lib 162 Time: 6:00 When speaking, students and professor will be referred to by their first and last initials. BJB = Brenda Jo Brueggeman Seating arrangement of room starting with KMV and moving clockwise: FS,…
Commentary #4 Liminality
by Amble • • 1 Comment
Bonnie Sunstein argues that a good ethnography lives in the liminal space between story telling and informational text. This is a very fine line, because if we force ourselves to present the information we gather in as objective a way…
Tips for Interviews and Fieldnotes
by Kim De Vries • • 0 Comments
Here is a short set of guidelines and tips for fieldnotes, and in more detail for interviewing, adapted from the Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes & Poverty (RECOUP). Fieldnotes and Note-taking