As soon as I read the title of this reading I became very curious. I thought I had finally found proof of what my parents thought was a very poor way of studying when I was in high school. I…
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Spivak & the struggle between theory and practice
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The first question posed this week for discussion addresses perhaps one of the most fundamental issues currently affecting education in our nation. The diversion between theory and practice whether it is that of composition, teaching k-12 or teaching ESL is…
Hooks’ Dilemma and our/our students’ writings
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In Hooks’ Rebel’s Dilemma one can almost feel her pain. A pain caused by her culture, her family, her profession, her academia, and her own writing. The struggle to alleviate this pain becomes then a central focus, a mission to search for…
Rearticulating Articulation, Standard English, and other myths.
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In Rearticulating Articulation David Russel and David Foster certainly remind us of our sad and detrimental reality. Our educational system as a whole is no better than any other around the world. In fact, the issues of transition between high…
S. Miranda 5001 Midterm
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Shirley Miranda Brenes English 5001 Dr. DeVries 6 April 2010 A1. Discuss how views of this relationship have changed over time, or compare the issue across the Greek/Roman, Indian, and Chinese traditions we’ve discussed. Rhetoric and Ethics across Greece/Rome, India,…
On Burke’s Filters & Weaver’s Responsibility
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I am not really sure how many of you had to bear with the multiple lectures on how language is a system of symbols, and those symbols allow us to understand the world around us. I have been hearing that…
Happy word, flawless sentences, clear paragraph… brilliant literary piece
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Xing Lu takes us to an exquisite journey of the raw origins of Chinese rhetoric and the misperception of it in the Western world. Although it was very interesting and informative to learn about the different schools of thoughts that…
Argument Formation… Really, What for?
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Much of the rhetoric that we have read up to now dealt with historic perspectives famous rhetoricians such as Aristotle, Cicero, Socrates, etc. However, this week’s reading took a turn for the better. I felt that for once it was…
Ramus & His Ad-Hominem
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Hello MaryAnn, Although I am late in responding to your questions (I was out of town in a conference), I hope it is not too late. I’d like to focus on the ad hominem attacks on Quintilian because I think often times…
From Arguments in Rhetoric against Quintilian
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Although I started my reading agreeing with Ramus in that too many people too often are wiling to accept what they first hear or read without putting too much thought into it or without taking the time to properly and…