Author Archive for uzma

I am new international student at CSU Stansilaus and have major in English literature. My career goal is to do PhD in English Literature and teach English Literature and Language.I have done Masters in English and Masters in TEFL and have been teaching for the last 8 years.

How to learn to write?

  This week reading is really interesting and thought provoking and raised one question will we ever have a consensus on anything in this world?   No one can deny the reality that English is the Lingua Franca of the world…

Fusion of Present and Past

Man is a symbol using animal and dramatism functions as a philosophy of human relations. Burke’s dramatism answers many empirical questions of how people explain their actions to themselves and others, and explains the different cultural and social structural influence…

Virtues of Philosophers

I think we cannot separate philosophy from style and delivery, unless someone has some philosophy working at the back of his thoughts than it can be shaped into style and rhetoric. As far as the argument of good man is…

Puzzles of philosophers

I am dazzled after reading Sutra and Rushd and wordless to express my thoughts. The readings appear to be just an argument for the sake of an argument. One thing can never be denied that every effect has its cause,…

Socrates on rhetoric

The Socratic Dialogue is an interesting reading about the definition and use of rhetoric. In my opinion rhetoric is the game of words; an artificer of persuasion that creates belief about just among the masses. The rhetoricians convince men that…

Quintilian

In my opinion Quintilian’s rhetoric covers three aspects: the theoretical, the educational, and the practical. He agrees on the theory of rhetoric with other rhetoricians “that oratory is the science of speaking well, for it embraces all the virtues, and…