...In English 111 I have learned different things to perfect my writing skills. We specifically spent more time focusing on rhetorical knowledge and its different categories. These categories include what rhetoric is its self, what a rhetorical situation is, what the rhetorical triangle is, and what are the rhetorical appeals are. It all can be tricky to understand but I think I have a pretty clear understanding of what rhetorical knowledge is. Let me first explain what rhetoric is. Rhetoric is the ability in each particular case to see the available means of persuasion. We use this all the time is our everyday life; when we speak, write, or any type of communication to convince other we are using rhetoric. For example say you’re watching TV and Dove soap commercial comes on, there’s a woman in the commercial that uses a different brand of soap and she states that she is having problems...
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...helped a lot because they served as a base for my argument. Brandt is more interested in the way people view the different aspects of literacy rather than arguing the standards she would set for the term. Young and Kendall also impacted my arguments because they see literacy in a rhetoric way speaking about the importance it carries and the ambiguity it possesses as well. As hard and complex as it was for me to begin this paper, I decided to speak of literacy as a process in everyone’s life. Starting from reading and writing and ending with our employers who are most likely the ones who will be setting the standards for our literacy level. As I read, I saw that the paper wasn’t flowing smoothly and I tried focusing on transitions from one idea to another as I went on to my final draft. As I see literacy as a process that is constantly evolving and flowing through out education and our lives, I thought that my paper should also be a flowing process that allows one idea to follow another in a smooth, yet very detailed way. To conclude, I learnt a lot from this unit. I learnt that with my own experiences, much focus, and good cited quotes, I can form a strong argument that emphasizes my perspective as to what it is to be “literate”. To Become Literate: The Process For a while now I’ve been thinking about the term literacy....
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...encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search The Book of the Courtier Language Italian Subject(s) Etiquette Publisher Aldine Press Publication date 1528 The Book of the Courtier (Italian: Il Cortegiano) is a courtesy book. It was written by Baldassare Castiglione over the course of many years, beginning in 1508, and published in 1528 by the Aldine Press in Venice just before his death; an English edition was published in 1561. It addresses the constitution of a perfect courtier, and in its last installment, a perfect lady. The Book of the Courtier remains the definitive account of Renaissance court life. Because of this, it is considered one of the most important Renaissance works. Contents [hide] 1 Principles 2 Reception 3 Rhetoric 4 See also 5 Sources 6 Notes [edit] PrinciplesThe book is organized as a series of fictional conversations that occur between the courtiers of the Duke of Urbino in 1507 (when Baldassare was in fact part of the Duke's Court). In the book, the courtier is described as having a cool mind, a good voice (with beautiful, elegant and brave words) along with proper bearing and gestures. At the same time though, the courtier is expected to have a warrior spirit, to be athletic, and have good knowledge of the humanities, Classics and fine arts. Over the course of four evenings, members of the court try to describe the perfect gentleman of the court. In the process they debate the nature of nobility, humor, women, and love. [edit] ReceptionThe...
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...Program in Writing and Rhetoric Autumn 2005 Honorable Mention Matthew Gribble Instructor’s Foreword Movies tell us that in the wake of a murder, detectives would stretch what appear to be pipe cleaners, or a very taut yarn, through the bullet holes left in walls, in lamps, in the hollow doors of haunted rooms. The yarn was there to demonstrate the location of the shooter – or indeed, shooters – relative to the victim. But the fact is that other forces might have conspired in the murder. (Poison may have been used; bullets may have been fired only as an afterthought; perhaps they were fired by the victim himself, before he died . . .) Yarn can tell us the story only in certain circumstances. As a researcher and a writer, Matthew Gribble analyzes his crime scene with diligence and care. The crisis: The shortage of nurses in America. The question: How and why did this shortage become a persistent problem? Matthew affixes strings of yarn to a number of gunshots: the increasing average age of the workforce, long hours, work that is often menial or clerical, and finally, relatively low salaries. But these strands lead to new questions, wider causes which have nothing to do with social yarn. These new questions have to do with rhetoric and the enduring association of nursing with “women’s work” and “femininity.” Matthew has the audacity to ask how the rhetoric of femininity actually functions. How and why are we compelled to accept images and tropes as ‘normal’ or ‘natural’ when...
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...Dear Future Composition and Rhetoric II Student, Taking notes has never been my forte. I never know what to jot down and what to leave out. Chapter three of The Curious Researcher, author Bruce Ballenger demonstrates how to take good notes. From just “listening in” (Ballenger) and reading what I can understand, to “speaking up” (Ballenger). Listening in means to read the paragraphs several times and to see what really sparks my interest. Speaking up is to get me writing. What did I learn? What did I agree with or disagree with? I used Ballenger’s note taking skills with all of my papers, but especially Ballenger’s Double Entry Journal when writing my career paper. Researching the right sources for my career was difficult for me. I had to read a lot of different books and articles and websites to find what really struck me, what I believed was worth citing, and what was not. Ballenger provides a list of questions to ask ourselves. There was one question that I kept asking myself. “How does the information connect to other sources you’ve read?” (Ballenger). I made sure that all of my sources and notes connected to my career of choice, a caseworker. Though a lot of the material I found was for a social worker, I had to dig deeper to find the specificity of a caseworker and the connections of my sources....
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...The rhetoric refers to techniques to persuade the audience. When considering the rhetorical situation the first thing I consider is who is my audience? What does the audience already know? What does my audience care about? You have to find how I am going to communicate my message to the audience. Making sure that I convey a proper way to persuade the reader. After selecting a topic I need to think about specific questions I want to address in my research questions. I ask myself do I want my question to be clear, focused, or complex. The research questions are going to help focus on a broad topic and specific issue to help develop search terms for my research. Identifying research questions by selecting nouns important to the meaning of your questions and leaving out ones that don’t help. Concept mapping helps refine your questions as you focus on your topic....
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...Mr. Macomber English 3 AP Syllabus 1.5 English 3 AP Course Overview Students in this introductory college-level course read and carefully analyze a broad and challenging range of nonfiction prose selections, deepening their awareness of rhetoric and how language works. Through close reading and frequent writing, students develop their ability to work with language and texts in order to establish greater awareness of purpose and strategy, while strengthening their own composing abilities. C16 Students examine rhetoric in essays, images, movies, novels, and speeches. They frequently confer about their writing by conferencing in class. C 14 Feedback is given both before and after students revise their work to help them develop logical organization, enhanced by specific techniques to increase coherence. Rhetorical structures, graphic organizers, and work on repetition, transitions, and emphasis are addressed. I comment on individual drafts, and I write memos to the class in a blog about whole-class concerns such as specificity of quotations, parallelism, and transitions. C13 Simultaneously, students review the simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentence classifications. We examine word order, length, and surprising constructions. Loose and periodic sentences are introduced. We examine sample sentences and discuss how change affects tone, purpose, and credibility of the author/speaker. In addition, feedback on producing sentence structure variety...
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...constantly being exposed to advertisements. I think people are exposed to them so much in today’s society, that sometimes they do not even recognize an ad to be an ad anymore. Ads have gotten a bit excessive. I hate when the same commercial comes on promoting food or merchandise and the narrating voice is so obnoxious, it forces me to change the channel. I never thought about it until now, but if I’m changing the channel the advertisements shown are obviously not successful. Ads can be seen on billboards, in stores, on TV and on food/beverage products. For example, the water bottle sitting right in front of me says “the ultimate hydration” and explains how the specific water company is good and can make a difference in hydrating. The Bahamas ad I chose depicts a man on top of a billboard, trying to slingshot himself to the Bahamas. Looks real safe, doesn’t it? However, when people see this billboard, I don’t think the safety of the man comes to mind. Instead, persuasion and the pursuit of happiness come into focus. The purpose of the ad is that everything is better in the Bahamas. This is evident as the billboard states: “It’s better in the Bahamas.” Exactly what is better though? I’m not sure and neither are the other viewers but one can assume life in general is better. One would be able to relax, experience tropical drinks and foods, swim in the breathtaking clear blue water as shown on the billboard and just absorb the sun’s rays. There are both literal and figurative meanings...
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...Moore−Parker: Critical Thinking, Ninth Edition 5. Persuasion Through Rhetoric: Common Devices and Techniques Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2009 Chapter Persuasion Through Rhetoric 5 It’s just the way things are: Images and impressions tend to sell more products than good arguments do. At least some of the images are fun. Common Devices and Techniques W hen the military uses the phrase “self-injurious behavior incidents” regarding detainees at Guantánamo Bay, it means what most of us call “attempted suicides.” In fact, when the word “detainees” is used, it means what most of us call “prisoners.” “Waterboarding” sounds at first like something you’d expect to see young people doing on a California beach, not a torture technique that involves forced simulated drowning. Less remarkable, perhaps, but possibly more relevant for most of us, we’ve heard the term “downsized” used when someone is fired or laid off. “Ethnic cleansing” covers everything from deportation to genocide. What we have to say may be important, but the words we choose to say it with can be equally important. The examples just given are cases of a certain type of linguistic coercion—an attempt to get us to adopt a particular attitude toward a subject that, if described differently, would seem less attractive to us. Words have tremendous persuasive power, or what we have called their rhetorical force or emotive meaning—their power to express and elicit images, feelings, and emotional...
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...THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS ON THE WORK OF THE INTERNAL HUMAN RESOURCE PROFESSIONAL by Julie A. Paleen Aronow A Research Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Master of Science Degree in Training and Development Approved: 4 Semester Credits Dr. Kat Lui The Graduate College University of Wisconsin – Stout May, 2004 ii The Graduate School University of Wisconsin – Stout Menomonie, WI 54751 ABSTRACT Aronow Julie Ann Paleen ________________________________________________________________________ (Last Name) (First) (Middle) THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS ON THE WORK OF THE INTERNAL HUMAN RESOURCE PROFESSIONAL ________________________________________________________________________ (Title) Training and Development Dr. Kat Lui May 2004 65 ________________________________________________________________________ (Graduate Major) (Research Advisor) (Month/Year) (No. of Pages) American Psychological Association, 5th Edition ________________________________________________________________________ (Name of Style Manual Used in this Study) The coveted epicenter for the contemporary human resource professional is partnering with other internal business leaders to fulfill the organization’s mission through sound and ethical business principles and human resource practices. Over three decades, the discipline has matured into one that includes transactional practices along side the more sophisticated organizational development...
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...sociocultural, and critical traditions of communication theory are distinguished by characteristic ways of defining communication and problems of communication, metadiscursive vocabularies, and metadiscursive commonplaces that they appeal to and challenge. Topoi for argumentation across traditions are suggested and implications for theoretical work and disciplinary practice in the field are considered. Communication theory is enormously rich in the range of ideas that fall within its nominal scope, and new theoretical work on communication has recently been flourishing.’ Nevertheless, despite the ancient roots and growing profusion of theories about communication, I argue that communication theory as an identifiable field of study does not yet exist.2 Rather than addressing a field of theory, we appear to be operating primarily in separate domains. Books and articles on communication theory seldom mention other...
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...this chaos, all of our factions, the agendas, and rhetoric. Don’t you see what it has been doing to us? It has caused us to come out of touch with reality and the rest of Athens. Because of our factions, we come to the Assembly ready to vote a certain way. More times than not, we will not change our vote either. We don’t care what is right. We don’t care what is wrong. We don’t care if someone has made an excellent point or not. Instead, we only vote for that way in favors of our faction’s agenda. Basically, we use rhetoric to debase the others in the assembly. We are here today, my brothers, to discuss more important agenda items. Basically all of you Radical and Moderate Democrats are going to just sit there in your seats and say, “get one with it already”. You’re going to listen to my arguments and points, and then oppose all of my statements and tell my fellow Oligarchs and I your side of the argument. But please, hear me out. The agenda for today is about Athens rebuilding its fleet and recommencing tribute...
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...(Eemeren & Grootendorst, 1995). The different types of fallacies are mere assertion, circular reasoning, Ad hominem, red herring, pseudo-questions, false cause, sweeping generalizations, slippery slope, and equivocation or changing meanings. Mere Assertion: Arguments by mere assertion simply mean a person uses a strong statement instead of any real fact to argue a point. Just because an argument is stated emphatically does not mean that statement is in fact true. In mere assertion even if there are facts to the contrary or that contradict the argument it will continue o be supported. Arguments by mere assertion are also considered rhetoric. Rhetoric is supporting the argument despite the fact there is no evidence the argument is true. It is a form of persuasion or blind faith in the mere assertion. Circular Reasoning: Circular reasoning is a type of fallacy where the argument goes in circles while never actually being proved. Circular reasoning also known as begging the question involves the conclusion found in the premise. Having a right to X is the same as other people having an obligation to allow you to have X, so each of these arguments begs the question, assuming exactly what it is trying to prove (2009). For example, the argument is the Bible is...
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...NOTE: All matters associated with this course are subject to change at the instructor's discretion. Any and all changes will be communicated to students in writing. Course Description RHET 1302 will prepare you for college-level writing while helping you develop your critical thinking skills. Rhetoric is the study and practice of how people communicate messages, not only in writing and speech, but also through visual and digital mediums. In this class, you will develop skills to analyze the way rhetoric, in its various forms, addresses audiences. By paying attention to the strategies that good writers and speakers use to persuade their particular audiences, you will learn to reason better and to persuade others in your own writing, both through rhetorical appeals and through analysis of audience, purpose, and exigency that is at the heart of the study of rhetoric. For RHET 1302, you will read and reread texts and write multi-draft essays. Practically speaking, you will learn skills that you can use in your future course work regardless of your major. Student Learning Objectives • Students will be able to write in different ways for different audiences. • Students will be able to write effectively using appropriate organization, mechanics, and style. • Students will be able to construct effective written arguments. • Students will be able to gather, incorporate, and interpret source material in their writing. Required Texts Rosenwasser, David and...
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...citizens and law makers alike. These terms go hand in hand with each other in their role in a democratic society. They create a sort of continuous triangle that keeps repeating as the cycle repeats itself. This semester we have grazed the surface, at the least, of each of these topics with our discussions from the textbook, Starship Troopers, and The New York Times. All these different mediums help us to begin to understand the deeply intertwined relationship of these three terms, each tied to the one before it to create the cycle we strive to live by. A final paper deciphering what we have learned and applying it to our roles in citizenship is my goal. I want to use this paper to break down each terms meaning, the relation of this term to citizens, and at the end explain the relationship of these terms as a whole and how their relationship affects citizens. “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country (John F. Kennedy).” One of the most remembered lines of a Presidential Inaugural in history, these words not only have the ability to capture the listeners attention but also the ability to sum up the meaning of an engaged citizen. Civic engagement has many definitions, but collectively the form one meaning—individual and group actions made to address public problems. Civic engagement is something that can be reached on a personal level by being an engaged citizen. Let us look at the...
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