2002 issue of LORE Journal presented by the Rhetoric and Writing Department of San Diego State University
for Tim Ferris Christ’s making port between his lips to the blues another cheery dusk of lambs for Christ’s majestic view fields exploding like emeralds under the cherry tree goodbye to you Canadian geese landing in the rice and ice cubes moving through the glass like shame and I’m still failing to understand so many […]
In her article, “Multicultural Classrooms, Monocultural Teachers,†Terry Dean discusses the plight of both teacher and student in regards to multiculturalism and the often problematic classroom situations it entails. Dean’s primary claim is that “with increasing cultural diversity in classrooms, teachers need to structure learning experiences that both help students write their way into the […]
The future of America is bacteria wrapped in circuit imprinted Mylar, injected into everything so we are the superprocessor the world moves to one collective will, voting becomes an invisible process in which we all strive for stillness. In the future we will say I am the good and the evil. We will stop drawing […]
The textbook, Literacies: Reading, Writing and Interpretation, edited by Terence Brunk, Suzanne Diamond, Priscilla Perkins, and Ken Smith, goes far beyond teaching the five-paragraph essay. This textbook, which is designed for beginning college-level writers, aims to empower students by helping them to find their voice through a rigorous (but enjoyable) process of interpreting and challenging diverse texts. […]
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000, is a massive, 2074-page volume with fascinating articles on the roots of the language and current usage. The First Edition appeared in 1969, only eight years after the Merriam-WebsterThird New International Dictionary aroused a storm of protest that resounds to this day. Philip Gove, Webster’s editor, […]
Introduction During the last five decades, rhetoricians have been deeply divided over whether rhetoric can be effectively used in teaching composition. Some have argued that rhetoric involves some or all forms of persuasion (Jordan 4). Others believe that it is the arguer’s manipulation of the audience (Herrick 3). These two views, among others, point to […]
Note: this paper is based on material in my dissertation, Rhetoric and Reflexivity in Chomskyan and Cognitive Linguistics (Carnegie Mellon University, 2002). Please do not quote from this paper. If you would like to read or quote from my dissertation, email me at cwerry@mail.sdsu.edu. 1.0 Introduction References to vision pervade Chomsky’s work.[1] They are a key component of the […]