Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Arrangement- Ideally, the rhetorical situation influences the writer's decisions.

Cicero's 6 part division for discourse:
  1. Exordium: Introduction & Insinuation
  2. Narration: Statement of Issue
  3. Partition: divide the issue into major parts
  4. Confirmation: major supporting arguments (evidence, examples, and analysis)
  5. Refutation: anticipating and responding to objections
  6. Peroration: Conclusion

Reading

  1. Would people analyze the same data in a different way?
  2. People have other data that would challenge/complicate your analysis.
  3. Our data, our analysis challenges other people's interpretations.
  4. Qualifying a statement on assertion.

Your Rhetorical Situation

If some one else performed the same research that I did with the editor of the WVU Alumni magazine, they would probably find a completely different angle to work at in order to compose their ethnographic research.

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