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…
English 5001
Paper Proposal: Making the Composition Classroom Make Sense
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When I observed an English 1000 class last semester which required students to write all the standard forms of essays, (argumentative, persuasive, etc), I felt like each topic worked independently of itself and that these students were jumping from place-to-place…
5001 Proposal Is California still “the land of fruits and nuts?”
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The Rhetoric of the Gay Debate in a Liberal State California has long been considered a liberal state on most issues. People from other states often refer to California as “the land of fruits and nuts” and they aren’t talking…
Japanese Rhetoric
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A survey of rhetoric course begins in ancient Greece, moves to the Romans, heads westward over time through Europe and the New World. Our course attempts to include rhetoric from China, India and Persia, but still overlooks rhetorical contributions from…
Commentary Week Four
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Mike Calou Commentary Week Four Rethinking Rhetoric from an Indian Perspective: Implications in the Nyaya Sutra It appears from the readings about Indian rhetoric that there were some misconceptions when western rhetoricians first began analyzing the rhetoric of…
5001 Proposal
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Dawn Hamilton English 5001 – Kim DeVries Research Proposal 3/12/09 Rhetoricians and educators have been trying for centuries to develop learning methods that encourage dialogic and participatory classroom settings. The struggle to create active- rather than passive-learners has been…
Nyaya Sutra and Cooperative Argumentation
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I find it interesting that similar to Chinese rhetoric, Indian rhetoric was also perceived as being either undeveloped or non-existent. Though this was due to the belief that because India was a very religious society that it must not have…
Walking a Mile in Ancient Indian Rhetorical Shoes, Commentary
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In “Rethinking Rhetoric from an Indian Perspective,” Keith Lloyd argues for the inclusion of the Nyaya Sutra text, an ancient Indian debate manual, in the field of rhetorical study. Lloyd claims that the reasoning patterns included in this text, which…
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…