rhetorical adventures?!
... an excerpt from my rhetorical criticism textbook:
You are about to embark on an exciting adventure that will engage and stimulate your critical thinking skills and challenge you to develop more sophisticated writing skills. If you are like most rhetorical critics, you will find yourself engaged, intrigued, inspired, and sometimes frustrated and baffled as you work through critical methods and develop analyses of artifacts. The process of rhetorical criticism is demanding and difficult, but it is also fun, and it is a skill that will enable you to analyze the worlds others have created and to choose more diliberately the symbolic worlds that you yourself inhabit.
-- from Sonja K. Foss' Rhetorical Criticism - Exploration and Practice
... are we having fun yet?
posted by mamastella at 1:03 PM
3 Comments:
heh. i especially like the fact that they warn us about that after 4 years of being "frustrated and baffled" ;o)
5:47 PM
You are about to embark on a tour of an alternate universe that will twist and warp your already slightly bent academic psyche and challenge you to abandon your more "specialized" social skills. If you are like most rhetorical critics, you may find yourself married, arrested, high, and sometimes failing and confused as you giggle strangely at advertisements and develop a profound wish for English Lit. The process of rhetorical criticism is weird and quirky, but it is also required, and it is a skill that will enable you to better wield the power of discourse and graduate.
--from Jared Penner's Holy Crap Another Term - Exploration and Practice
And... yes.
5:51 PM
(shaking head dazedly) brutal, jared. just brutal. ;o)
6:43 PM
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