In “Writing as a Mode of Learning,” Janet Emig takes a rather unique stand both in how she views writing and in how she defines it as a learning process. She describes writing as heuristic, and by that, it seems…
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Where Sleeping Giants Lie: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and the Shaping of American Literature
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Abstract: Do eighteenth-century American women writers have a place inside the classroom or the canon, and if not, does their work merit such a place?Where Sleeping Giants Lie This project seeks to find whether or not women were writing in…
Composition Studies and ESL Writing, a Commentary
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I found this article interesting and valid for several reasons: first, it offers a detailed history of the two fields of ESL and compositional studies that offers much needed insight into the schism and division of these disciplines, and second,…
Composition and Writing in Other Nations – Commentary
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This is an exceptional article for laying adequate groundwork to encompass the very broad very expansive subject that is cross-national compositional perspective. As soon as I was through the introduction, I found myself wanting to read the specifics of their…
Classical Crashings of Writing and Change- Commentary
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Near the beginning of this essay, Li claims that educators are wary of tampering with China’s “brilliant literary tradition,” choosing instead to honor and preserve the moral and educational trends of the past (51), but as we dive further into…
The Rhetoric of Women in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Literature
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I have read and studied quite a bit of women’s literature as an English major, but upon taking this class, I find myself wondering about the rhetorical devices and strategies at play in not only the works I have studied…
The Nyaya’s Place in Western Rhetorical Studies – Commentary
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In this article, Keith Lloyd claims that it is a common tendency in rhetorical studies to overlook the Nyaya text as having any relevance in Western views on the matter. He calls for the inclusion of this text in the…
The Frequency of Outlandishness – Commentary
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In “The Nyaya Sutras,” book V, Chapter I, Buddha lays out 24 seperate fallacious arguments, providing descriptions and examples for each. While several are slightly confusing and could use more support, they are, for the most part, both familiar and…
Multicultural Hermeneutics – Commentary
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In both the Introduction and Chapter One, Xing Lu lays the groundwork for a historically based portrayal of classical Chinese rhetoric. Before she can present her argument, however, she must first draw the reader’s attention to the notion of “Orientalism”…
Impeding Argument – Commentary
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In this address, Isocrates has several main agendas. He aims to describe the human body, particularly the mind, and how practice and training can condition it. He also implicitly lays out the steps for success under his instruction, stresses the…