"Our discipline has been long in knuckling from its eyes the sleep of the ninetheenth and early twentieth centuries, and the real lesson of the modes is that we need always to be on guard against systems that seem convenient to teachers but ignore the way writing is actually done."
- Connors, "Fall and Rise of the Modes"
- What are some definitions for "rhetoric"?
- What are the features of a rhetoric?
- What were the influences on early modern American rhetorics and writing instruction?
- What was the role of textbooks in the development of early modern rhetorical theories?
- What is the difference between the modes of discourse and Kinneavy's aims of discourse?
- How are theories of discourse "built," what method do they use?
- How do these readings fill in the "gap" in composition scholarship from week 1, i.e., the early 20th century?
- How would a "timeline" of composition scholarship look, as we know it today?
- What are the major contributions of modern theories of invention to comtemporary rhetorical theory and pedagogy?
- What is the issue between rational and non-rational forms of invention?
- What are some of the emphasese of more contemporary forms of invention (social, critical, etc.)
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