The World, The Text, and The Critic
In Defense of Rhetoric
FYI:
Hello Lang-ers!
Advice for tomorrow and the rest of the semester:
1. Be brave in your discussions—you are all new in this material, so feel free to speak openly and ask questions, participate, and be bold.
2. Be patient—many of you have mastered one type of writing, and you will probably feel uncomfortable in the beginning making stylistic writing choices that seem weird or strange. You will get there.
3. Be confident. Everything builds off what you already know.
4. Be interested—Follow the following blogs/websites, Twitter accounts, and magazines:
The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Slate, Psychology Today, Freakonomics podcast, NPR, Ted Talks, This American Life, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal; most authors we read have Twitter accounts—follow them!
5. If you follow any great news blogs, unearth an awesome article, video, podcast, or Twitter account (scholarly), send them my way. It can only provide you and I a deeper and broader scope to help you pull from on the AP Exam on May 16th.
Advice for tomorrow and the rest of the semester:
1. Be brave in your discussions—you are all new in this material, so feel free to speak openly and ask questions, participate, and be bold.
2. Be patient—many of you have mastered one type of writing, and you will probably feel uncomfortable in the beginning making stylistic writing choices that seem weird or strange. You will get there.
3. Be confident. Everything builds off what you already know.
4. Be interested—Follow the following blogs/websites, Twitter accounts, and magazines:
The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Slate, Psychology Today, Freakonomics podcast, NPR, Ted Talks, This American Life, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal; most authors we read have Twitter accounts—follow them!
5. If you follow any great news blogs, unearth an awesome article, video, podcast, or Twitter account (scholarly), send them my way. It can only provide you and I a deeper and broader scope to help you pull from on the AP Exam on May 16th.