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I am almost done with the RTW program I have 3 more classes and i can't wait to teach!
The Orient found and lost
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Question One- Yes, I do believe Said was responding to his critics, which believed he was defending the societies labeled by “Orientalism”. Said explains that he was, Far from being a defense either of Arab or of Islam-as my…
Writing Mind Patterns
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The Flower-Hayes article looked at how the brain begins the writing process. Writers do not just write down what they say onto a piece of paper, but there is a complex process occurring as they write. One of the main…
ESL EXPECTATIONS
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Regardless of who should teach ESL students, the writing class has always been downgraded in class of importance compared to literacy. Many of the writing programs at the university are taught by new teachers or interns. There is also very…
Tweetilie DEE!!!
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Students today have become the multi-task generation with texting, email and the web 2.0 in general. Technology could be seen as the new wave of learning in the classroom. Rhetoricians and Educators have tried some of the tools used…
Cultural Snap Phooie
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When you have so many opinions and cultures weighing in on how writing should be taught, it is hard to decide what should be done. One over all questions I thought about as I read was, “Why don’t all educational…
BURKE BABY!
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Burke really felt that rhetoric happened from action. Rhetoric occurs when a person is in the moment a “dramatistic” approach to creating and defining what it is. I take from this that rhetoric never dies but is a type of…
Sweet and Sour
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How can we see another culture as rhetorically important when we disregard the whole cultures validity as an equal? Maybe soon as a western culture we can start to acknowledge Chinese Rhetoric as an equally valid discourse. Our past concerns…
The Egg BEFORE the Chicken???
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Rushd tries to shed light upon the question of the egg before the chicken question. Is there existence from non-existence? How by using God’s “agents” he who created all things creates different agents that are “natural” and “voluntary”? A natural agent does their…
Perfect does not mean Virtuous
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When speaking of Quintilian’s assessment that a perfect orator must necessarily be a good man, Ramus uses the comparisons that “the grammarian is…not defined as skilled in speaking, writing, and singing” and “the geometrician is not defined as skilled in…