Either that, or he hit a nerve with the Composition and Rhetoric pros
(apparently there isn't such a thing as Composition any more).
Some of the commenters appeared to be turning his qualified
statements into absolutes -- he never actually said that rhetoric
consisted ONLY of Aristotle's three categories).
I do have the feeling that English departments (some of my best
friends are English profs ;-) have become a bit inbred.
On Dec 23, 2008, at 10:40 PM, Rick Froman wrote:
I am also not an expert in this topic but, evidently, from the
comments following the article, even composition profs don't
recognize their field in that article and even suggest that IHE
dropped the ball on reviewing the article (whatever process they
use for selecting articles). I would say you probably haven't
missed an important issue in the teaching of composition as much as
the grad student who wrote that article missed the point.
Rick
Dr. Rick Froman, Chair
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
John Brown University
Siloam Springs, AR 72761
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From: Christopher D. Green [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 8:46 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Stop Using Rhetoric to Teach Writing :: Inside
Higher Ed
I spend a fair bit of my time thinking, reading, and occasionally
writing about higher education. So I find it rather jarring when I
reading something that demands and end to what is purported to be a
widespread practice that I had never heard of before. Actually,
I've long thought that we should be more open to, and more
reflective upon, the rhetorical practices in which we (academics,
scientists, psychologists, teachers) engage. But I've never thought
that teaching Aristotle's rhetoric had come to displace "critical
thinking" (vague as that phrase is) in the undergraduate
curriculum. Then again, I don't hang out near composition classes
much. Has anyone else run into this recently?
Here's a long column decrying the rise of rhetorical analysis as
having been a key part of the academy's response to the pressure
put upon it by conservative critics over the course of the past
eight years.
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/12/23/kugelmass
Festive Festivus!
Chris
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