Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts – Tyteca Chain Perelman and Olbrechts Tyteca have given useful insights on the theory of argumentation. Perelman and Tyteca’s focus is on Rhetoric. Both focus on the ancient rhetoric, which was the art of Public…
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JUST VIEW IT AND FORWARD IT!–NOT!
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In our last class meeting Mike suggested that the “light bulb” should be coming on for us by this time in the semester and Dr. Devries responded, “We would hope”. That got me thinking about what I have learned from…
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Emig, Flowers, and Hayes – 3D+
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After reading Janet Emig’s article “Writing as a Mode of Learning” and Linda Flower and John R. Hayes’ article, “A Cognitive process Theory of Writing”, I feel like I’ve finally put on my 3-D glasses at “A Bug’s Life” at…
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bell hooks Stretches the Concept of Colonization
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In “Rebel’s Dilemma” bell hooks describes her “struggle to break from the impositions of images that don’t represent [her] accurately or well” as a black woman both in “the homefront and in the public world”(1). The struggle, she states, is…
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Giambatista Vico
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Giambatista Vico Vico focuses on the study methods of the ancients and modern times. His views discuss how present study methods are better than the study methods of the past, and ways in which the inferior study methods of the…
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Commentary – Week Three
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Reading Response – Week 3 Xing Lu and Lu Xie have given useful insights on Chinese Rhetoric. Both the writers focused on translation, hermeneutics and also elaborating on a Western approach to Chinese rhetoric. Hermeneutics is the translation of historical…