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Textbook Review: ENC 6339. Matthew McBride and David Dadurka Nov. 8, 2010. Integrating Classical Rhetoric in a Writing about Writing Curriculum. A Review of Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student (4th ed.) and Ancient Rhetorics for the Contemporary Students (4th ed.). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Textbook Review: ENC 6339
Matthew McBride and David DadurkaNov. 8, 2010
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Integrating Classical Rhetoric in a Writing about Writing Curriculum
A Review of Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student (4th ed.) and Ancient
Rhetorics for the Contemporary Students (4th ed.)
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Benefits of Incorporating Classical Rhetoric into WAW
• Draws attention to historical roots of composition studies
• Establishes foundation for understanding of contemporary uses and studies of rhetoric
• Useful heuristics for invention• Compliments and balances focus on
academic writing with attention to other social and political concerns
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Student Learning Outcomes For ENC 1101 at UCF
1. understand how writers construct texts persuasively (or not);2. understand how readers construct meaning(s) from texts;3. understand the concept of the rhetorical situation and be able to apply it to writing and
reading situations;4. understand writing and research as processes requiring planning, incubation ,revision, and
collaboration;5. understand how language practices mediate group activities;6. understand how and why discourse conventions differ across groups (including groups
within the university);7. have acquired a vocabulary for talking about writing processes and themselves as writers;8. have acquired strategies for reading complex, college level texts;‐9. have acquired tools for analyzing the discourses and genres of various communities
(including within the university);10. have acquired tools for successfully responding to varied discourse conventions and genres
in different situations (including different classes);11. be able to actively reflect on their own writing processes and practices and adjust them as
appropriate to rhetorical situations.
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Two Textbooks to Consider for Use in ENC 1101
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• Written by Edward P.J. Corbett and Robert J. Connors
• First published in 1965• Last updated in 1999
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Key Features
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Feature: Handbook-Style Reference Guide
• Makes finding specific items easy
• Most helpful if you know what you are looking for
• Suggests use as a Reference
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Feature: Survey of the History and Theory of Rhetoric
• Brief but useful background for instructors
• Seems to present a linear and progressive narrative
• Leaves out early women contributors
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Feature: Introduction
• Exposes readers to the basics
• Presents rhetoric as a scholarly analytical tool
• Might not engage students
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Feature: Progymnasmata
• Lists 14 ancient exercises
• Adapts them to create 8 exercises appropriate for modern writers
• Independent section in the back of the book
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Feature: Bibliography
• Divided into six sections: 1. Bibliographies2. Primary Texts3. History of Rhetoric4. Theories of Rhetoric5.Collections of Articles of Rhetoric6.Style
• Useful for instructors and students
• No entries were written in the last 11 years
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Observations and Criticisms
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Observations and Criticisms: Illustrative examples
• Belletristic• Dated• Authors’ writing
may seem stilted
“Literature and Science” by Matthew Arnold
“Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
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Observations and Criticisms: The Canons
How many canons?
1. Discovery 2. Arrangement3.Style4. Memory 5.Delivery
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Observations and Criticisms: The Canons
DiscoveryArrangementStyleMemory Delivery
• Limited largely to logical appeal
• Useful for analysis• Larson’s plan is valuable• Incomplete discussion
of status theory
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Observations and Criticisms: The Canons
DiscoveryArrangementStyleMemory Delivery
• Formulaic• May seem limiting
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Observations and Criticisms: The Canons
DiscoveryArrangementStyleMemory Delivery
• Core of the book• Provides a stilted
argument for style• Useful for teaching
meaning with sentence variety and construction
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Observations and Criticisms: Presentation of Rhetoric
Aristotelian• A collection of discrete
pieces• Rhetoric as an abstraction • Assumes a largely uniform
audience• Logic as the primary
appeal
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• Written by Sharon Crowley and
Debra Hawhee• First edition authored
together 1999 • Last Updated in 2009
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Key Features
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Feature: Introduction
• Not called an introduction• Begins with what readers
are likely to know already• Casts rhetoric as human
action, not just rules• Illustrates contemporary
examples of rhetoric
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Feature: Progymnasmata and Rhetorical Activities
• Integrated in the text
• Thorough explanations
• Additional rhetorical activities
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Feature: Glossary
• Increase ease of use• Terms are bolded in the text
proper• Glossary descriptions are
useful but not exhaustive
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Feature: Bibliography/Suggested Readings
• Concise• Up to date
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Feature: Signposts
• Ancient Rhetoric as its scope
• Brief• Provides limited
context
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Observation and Criticism
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Observation and Criticism: Invention
• Treatment of Invention takes up over half the book
• Entire chapter devoted to rhetorical situation
• Emphasizes the roles of kairos• Gives adequate attention to all three
appeals: logos, ethos, pathos
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Observations and Criticisms: Illustrative Examples
• Generally engaging• Tied to mostly to civic
concerns• Timely• Left leaning
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Observation and Criticism: Heuristics
• Heuristics for invention• Rhetoric as a heuristic
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Observation and Criticism: Presentation Rhetorics
Isocratean and Kairotic
• Associated with human action
• Contingent
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Recommendations
• Best if used as a reference• Could be used by instructors
for brushing up• Heuristics for invention and
some sections regarding style can be used in class
• Not recommend as core text
• Excellent for training FYC instructors with little experience studying rhetoric
• Many chapters could be used as readings for students
• Recommended as a complimentary text for WaW curricula
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Ways to Compliment WAW with Classical Rhetorics
• Incorporate classical modes of discourse in a discussion of genres
• Consider the classical concept of partition with Swales’s CARS Model
• Pair C&H chapter on rhetorical situation and kairos with Grant-Davie’s “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents”
• Pair C&H’s discussion of grammar and style with John Dawkins’s “Teaching Punctuation as a Rhetorical Tool” or Joseph William’s “The Phenomenology of Error”
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Ways to Compliment WAW with Classical Rhetorics
• Include C&H’s discussion of ideologies with the study of discourse community
• Include the teaching of the five canons as a contrast to contemporary conceptions of the writing process
• Introduce modes of appeal into discussion of types of evidence valued by different communities
• Provide heuristics to students for inventing arguments
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ReferencesCorbett, Edward P.J., and Robert J. Connors. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. New York:
Oxford UP, 1999. Print. Crowley, Sharon, and Debra Hawhee. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. LOCATION:
Longman, 2009. Downs, Doug, and Elizabeth Wardle. Writing about Writing: A College Reader. Boston: Bedford/St.
Martins, 2011. Print. Fulkerson, Richard. “Four Philosophies of Composition.” College Composition and Communication
30.4 (1979): 343-348. JSTOR. Web. 7 Nov. 2010. Haskin, Ekaterina V. Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle. Columbia: University of South
Carolina Press, 2004.Welch, Kathleen E. “Appropriating Plato’s Rhetoric and Writing into Contemporary Rhetoric and
Writing Studies.” The Contemporary Reception of Classical Rhetoric: Appropriations of Ancient Discourse. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1990. PDF. UCF WebCourses. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. 93-111. Print.
Welch, Kathleen E. “Appropriating Competing Systems of Classical Greek Rhetoric: Considering Isocrates and Gorgias with Plato in the New Rhetoric of the Fourth Century B.C.” The Contemporary Reception of Classical Rhetoric: Appropriations of Ancient Discourse. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1990. PDF. UCF WebCourses. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. 113-141. Print.