Archive for May, 2007
conflict, issues, and audience in the rhetorical situation
Hunsaker and Smith critique previous discussions of the rhetorical situation for not adequately taking into account the perceptions of the rhetor and audience surrounding the issues at stake. The perception and resolution of issues (defined as the actual and potential questions in the situation [144]) are in tension with each other, and in even greater [...]
TagCrowd of draft of chapter 1 of thesis
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TagCrowd
Anne-Marie Deitering (OSU Valley Library) is (at this very moment!) doing her presentation for Writing Intensive Curriculum, titled “Read, Write, Share: Emerging Technologies in the Writing Classroom.” She just showed us TagCrowd, which is amazing. I just pasted in a paper I turned in this morning, and here is the tagcloud for the paper (it’s [...]
note to myself
I am bad at keeping notes of things to read or do. My to-do lists fly all over the place and eventually get lost. Help me out, blog. Mike Edwards, while reflecting on what was going on twenty years ago, writes:
Twenty years ago, C. Paul Olson wrote an essay called “Who Computes?“ for the edited [...]
what is the role of an intellectual?
From Edward Said, who argues for, in a way, a conflation of the public writer and the public intellectual:
“[D]uring the last years of the twentieth century, the writer has taken on more and more of the intellectual’s adversarial attributes in such activities as speaking the truth to power, being a witness to persecution and suffering, [...]
more on the rhetorical situation
In “Generic Constraints and the Rhetorical Situation,” Kathleen M. Hall Jamieson writes that “Genres are shaped in response to a rhetor’s perception of the expectations of the audience and the demands of the situation” (163). Adding to Bitzer’s conception that genres grow out of comparable situations, Jamieson claims “that perception of the proper response to [...]
mayday?
So, it’s May First, the day some of us connote with the lingering pagan influences on our society: May Day. It’s also Labour Day in many countries. I don’t really have time to reflect on it much, though I’d suggest that you check out Engage’s discussion of the holiday and of immigrant rights. I’m left [...]
