Lu Xing Associate Professor in the Department of Communications at DePaul University and the author of Rhetoric in Ancient China: Fifth to Third Century B.C.E.: A Comparison with Classical Greek Rhetoric, Lu has also published many journal articles and book…
English 5870
Week #2: Ethnographic Perspective
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Carol Frank’s article really made an impression on me relevant to my upcoming classroom ethnographic observation. Frank’s use of comparison between the student-teachers and her own notes was impressive. I could see myself being tempted to say “the classroom was…
English 5001
Isocrates, Antidosis
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Aaron Arias English 5001 Dr. Kim Devries Spring 2009 Isocrates, Antidosis Isocrates is being accused of corrupting the youth of the land for educating them in a manner that creates independent thinkers (Sounds familiar, maybe it is a…
English 5870
Paired Observation
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Ned Weidner Paired Observation ENGL 5870 2/26/09 The Ways People Interact 530 @ Mom’s Café CSU Stanislaus Watching the café counter and the way people order coffee and the workers behind the counter. Scene: There is a Mom’s…
English 5870
Purcell-Gates Commentary #1
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Ned Weidner ENGL 5870 Dr. DeVries 2/26/09 I had never heard the word ethnography before until about six months ago when I was introduced to two Raymond Williams books Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society and Writing Culture. …
English 5001
Impeding Argument – Commentary
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In this address, Isocrates has several main agendas. He aims to describe the human body, particularly the mind, and how practice and training can condition it. He also implicitly lays out the steps for success under his instruction, stresses the…