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…
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Commentary #1: Purcell-Gates
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Adam Russell Professor DeVries English 5870 23 January 2009 Commentary #1 The Fine Balance between Participant and Observer Last Saturday’s episode of Law & Order: SVU contained a plot device where a stripper is interrogated for a brutal attack on…
Commentary #1 Purcell-Gates
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Keri Ortiz 5870 Dr. DeVries February 24, 2009 Ethnographic Research In the chapter titled “Ethnographic Research” author Victoria Purcell-Gates gives the reader an overview of the process behind ethnography and a few different approaches as observed by Purcell-Gates in several…
Week 2 Commentary #1
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Tina Bell English 5870 Dr. Devries February 24, 2008 Commentary #1 It seems that Victoria Purcell-Gates in her article, “”Ethnographic Research,” not only validates the importance of ethnographic research as a method for studying areas about which little…
Week 2 – Harris Chap 1
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Maria Shreve Dr. DeVries English 5870 February 24, 2009 In the introduction of Rewriting, Joseph Harris, discusses exactly how intellectuals write in response to text, that is, the work of others. (1) He states that it simply is not enough…