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…
Author Archive for Kim De Vries
I've been teaching rhetoric and writing for about 15 years. My classes generally include undergraduate composition and graduate classes in rhetoric and/or teaching composition. I'm interested in teaching courses that explore rhetoric and issues of identity: gender, race/ethnicity, class, especially online. I also teach non-western rhetoric and am developing several courses in digital rhetoric and new media; I feel it is especially important to teach graduate students, future teachers, about these topics. My research interests include transnational literacies, comparative (and contrastive) rhetoric, new/digital media, online communities, and identity studies. Most recently I've been studying the institutionalization of new media in the Netherlands, particularly the impact of gender. If you visit my research blog and look at all the posts tagged book project, you should get a pretty clear picture.
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…
5870 — Calendar
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Tentative Schedule Week 1: What is Ethnography? 2/17 Introduction to the course and to each other. Don DeLillo passage about “The Most Photographed Barn in America” . Quick-write responses to syllabus quotations. An exercise in observation. *Create a plan for…
Hiring Committees and people who teach multimodal comp. Mixed with Nazis.
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In Kairos 13.2, the following video is presented. I’m really not sure about remixing Hitler (or a film about him) for this. The term “grammar nazi” is pretty common and this obviously a play on that phrase, but I’ve grown…
Feminism, rhetoric, and composition
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Recently I decided that I needed to include at least a little on women’s rhetoric in my Rhetoric survey, Engl 5001. I was surprised that there are not many more resources than there were 5-10 years ago. I then started…
The Most Photographed Barn In America
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This piece is excerpted from White Noise, the eighth novel by Don DeLillo, and is considered an example of postmodern literature. It won the National Book Award in 1985 and garnered attention and readers for DeLillo who is now a highly respected author.