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By Katt on Jul 25, 2007 in First Year Composition (FYC), Pedagogy, Rhetoric | 0 Comments
“If you say it repetitively in class, the students will start to see how it fits into their own work and eventually it will become second nature to them. Dr. Tommy Boley imbued me with this wisdom to teaching grammar to students last year. While his advice came strictly from the point of view of [...]
By Katt on Jul 18, 2007 in First Year Composition (FYC), Recommended Reading, Rhetoric | 0 Comments
Quandahl, Ellen. “Aristotle’s Rheotic: Reinterpreting Invention.” Rhetoric Review. 4.2(Jan., 1986): 128-137. (Available through JSTOR)
In “Aristotle’s Rhetoric: Reinterpreting Invention,” asserts that the use of the topics in the Rhetoric were not intended as methods of invention, but rather as useful theories to aid in interpretation. Reading the Rhetoric with excerpts from Aristotle’s Topics, along with the [...]
By Katt on Apr 24, 2007 in Blogroll, Recommended Reading, Rhetoric | 0 Comments
Though Aristotle is the first to elaborate on the concept of enthymematic reasoning, it is in Cicero’s De Inventione that a distinction is laid out between the three-part and the five-part styles of enthymematic reasoning and a justification is provided for the use of the five-part style. For Cicero, the five-part style of the enthymematic [...]
