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Issues in Responding to Student Writing Assignment 4/6/17
Steve,
This paper offers many useful tips when fishing in Orlando’s lakes. You offer many concrete and sensory details that really recreate the lake for me. This paper has a lot of potential, especially after another a revision. Where I find you diverge from your title is in the narration section of your paper. The assignment is to write about something you know how to do and explain it to us. Thus, while the narration is good and interesting, you should not allow it to become the center of your paper. I would suggest rereading the prompt and then use you narration to solidify your points.
I chose this as the main problem to respond to because the base of Steve’s problems within the paper is a knowledge problem. If he goes back and rereads the prompt, then this should fix this problem.
Reading Response to Responding to Student Writing and Rewriting
The main theme between these two sections of reading deal with responding to student’s papers and how they perceive these comments. In the section on responses to student writing, Lindemann goes over the technical reasons for why teachers do this. In the previous section of the reading on rewriting, Lindemann also touches on these responses as “rarely praised strengths” (Lindemann 190). This has been true in my entire writing career. While they are helpful to an extent, the comments I receive on my papers rarely give praise to my strengths. I believe that this is where teachers miss the most opportunity to actually help and teach their students. Yes it is important to point out mistakes, but it is also helpful to praise them on the things they did well. This, in my opinion, is how to make students better writer.
Final exam ids and short answer questions
1: five cannons of rhetoric
2: eloquence
describe the emphasis placed on civic virtue and life in rhetoric during the medieval and Renaissance periods.
Herrick Ch. 3 question 2
Plato is concerned in the difference between true knowledge and mere belief because one deals with faith and the other with facts. True knowledge is the absolute clearest truth one can say. In relationship to rhetoric, true knowledge is using true facts to back your argument or support your stance. With mere belief, you have no concrete evidence to support your claim or point. In the justice system, facts can save or damn a person on whether or not they committed a crime. If you just merely believed that he did it, you may condemn an innocent man, but, if you find the true knowledge or facts, then you may lock away a killer or save an innocent man.
Definition of Rhetoric
At first, rhetoric to me was almost a synonym for grammar. I thought it meant a logical structure of words od phrases. Now, I realize that rhetoric is so much more than that. Rhetoric to me now is the way one crafts an argument or stance to gain favor or sway with a specific audience. What I mean by thus is that one would craft a speech for example and target that speech for a specific audience, choosing words that would trigger the desired response from that audience. This would also mean that rhetoric encompasses multiple writing strategies, such as ethos, logos, pathos, similes, and metaphors to name a few. This yet again changes my definition of rhetoric to: Devices, grammatical structure, and knowledge and mastery over the English language to effectively craft and deliver a speech and obtain the desired effect
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