Students have a hard enough time finding their identity in the academic realm without having to worry about whether or not they are going to be percieved as outsiders, foreigners, or Heaven forbid… “Wierdos.” According to Ball “It’s the way…
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I am a graduate student, and I am eager to learn how to research adequately and take command of the material that I want to present.
The Writing Process Elbow Style
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The Writing Process Elbow Style According to Elbow the emphasis should be on writing and responding. I think what he is saying, is that writing is a process. People are given a literacy process in schools that begins with the…
Midterm A2
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Midterm The relationship between the study of rhetoric and the development of virtue or an ethical sense has been debated since classical times. A2. Explain the classical and enlightenment definitions of rhetoric and propose a contemporary definition. Account for the…
Midterm B1
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Midterm Looking at Western, Indian, and Chinese classical Rhetorics, we can see similarities and differences. B1. Is it possible to really understand the rhetorical tradition of another culture? Explain why or why not, based on arguements of Yameng lui,…
Rhetorical effects of music in education
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Last year I was chastised for teaching English with musical and theatrical methods in the classroom. I was able to keep my students engaged and interested in the material that we were going through; consequently, my students internalized the learning…
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,…
Ancient Chinese Culture Clashes
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Aaron Arias English 5001 Kim DeVries Spring 2009 Ancient Chinese Culture Clashes Response # 2 The fact that American Rhetoric requires proof and a case does not mean that other forms of rhetoric are not acceptable. So what,…
Isocrates, Antidosis
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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…