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Reading Rhetorically

I love the idea Ann George presents in Critical Pedagogies: “we see the world through the lens of symbols so natural, so unremarkable…...

I struggle with the system of a grade-less writing course for many reasons. But reading Yancey’s statement, “Too often, we see our...

Canagarajah, Tinberg, Villanueva, and Wardle and Downs all add to the certainty that first-year-composition is a complex subject to take...

I am just beginning to understand that understanding is critical to the foundation of college-level teaching, especially when teaching...

The five canons of rhetoric include invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. Though their direct terminology evolved in the...

What constitutes a good speech? Apparently, a good speech seduces. I might not have pondered carefully enough, because on first reading,...

Parmenides A Pre-Socratic thinker, Parmenides offered a different type of rhetoric than the Sophists or the rhetoricians who would come...

Response: Lectures 1-3 Simultaneously a modern day component of education on writing and a historically rich journey seeking to...

Believing that Gorgias’s Encomium of Helen was done very poorly, Isocrates criticizes the prideful praise offered by Sophists and gives...

The very first sentence could easily be said about education today. I like education (or I would not be in a program that will lead to...