For most of my college career, I have felt as if there must be something a little askew about the way that my writing process works. I have never been comfortable with the models that have been most often recommended—the…
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Answering the question, ‘Who do you think you are?’
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“Who do you think you are?” In the incident that bell hooks relates, that question was meant to shame and humiliate, not prompt “existential self-reflection.” In the original context, the question enforces hurtful boundaries, but that only makes the questioners…
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Teaching and Learning Writing: Trouble at Every Level
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This week’s readings illuminate and explore several issues about writing in the classroom and in academia. Many of these have been readily apparent to me as a student in the system. Certainly any person coming to the college classroom without…
Anne Engert Midterm, A2 and B1
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Anne Engert Dr. Kim DeVries English 5001 9 Apr. 2010 Midterm A2: Explain the Classical and enlightenment definitions of rhetoric and propose a contemporary definition. Account for the differences between the three. The Western rhetorical tradition has a long and…
Burke and Weaver and the Power of Filters
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Can we ever see the world as it really is? Metaphysical questions such as this go back a long way, and my grasp of all the centuries of ontological and epistemological philosophical wrangling is superficial at best. That we are…
Yameng Liu and Carolyn Matalene: Culture Clash or Culture Bash
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I first encountered the idea that other cultures might have a radically different way of constructing arguments when I was a tutor in the writing center at a community college. In that school, we had many ESL students, quite a…
Arguing the Nyaya Way: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
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Western-style rhetoric and Aristotelian syllogism find a fascinating counterpart in the model for argumentation and debate outlined in the Nyaya Sutra. I was particularly intrigued with the fundamental differences between Western rhetorical theory and Nyaya theory with respect to the…
Ramus vs. Vico: How Should Rhetoric be Taught?
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Of what exactly should a curriculum in rhetoric consist? In “Arguments in Rhetoric Against Quintilian,” Peter Ramus wants to isolate matters he considers essential to the study of rhetoric—style and delivery—leaving dialectical matters to other disciplines. In “On the Study…
Quintilian’s Advice: Read, Write, Excel
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Our Classical writers on rhetoric for this week have much sound advice for those who seek to become skilled orators, as well as to those who would instruct them. For the aspiring rhetorician, Aristotle’s detailed cataloging of the intricacies of…