Corder - Rhetoric as Love
SummaryJim W. Corder wrote a lecture called Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love; he started describing how authors are, "All authors, to be sure, we are more particularly narrators, historians, tale tellers (16)." Corder then continued talking about how authors live what they write, "We tell our lives and live our tales, enjoying where we can, tolerating what we must, turning away to re-tell, or sinking into madness and disorder if we cannot make our tale into a narrative we can live in (16)." Then he says that authors writing describe who they are, "We're always standing some place in our lives, and ther is always a tale of how we came to stand here (16)..." He says that authors struggles while writing, sometimes they think they are missing some parts making it not be enough or have no sense and other times they just tell the story how they see it. As the lecture goes on he explains how authors make use of language and narrative, "When we use language, some choices have already been made and others must be made. Our narratives, which includes our past, accompany us and exist in our statement and exercise their influence (17)." He says something important about language, "Language comes out of us a word at a time; we cannot get all said at once (18)." Corder then asks an important question, "What happens, then, if the narrative of another crushes up against our own (19)?" Corder answered to that question, "Any narrative exists in time; any narrative is made of the past , the present, and the future. We cannot without potential harm shift from the past of one narrative into the present and future of another, or from the past and present of one narrative into the future of another, or from the future we are narrating into a past that is readily ours (19)." Corder then suggest a rhetoric argument method, "First: an introduction to the problem, second:a statement of the contexts, third: a statement of the writers position, and fourth: a statement of how the opponents position would benefit (20,21)." Later on he describes what an argument is, "Argument is not something to present or to display. It is something to be (26)." Corder then explains what an argument requires, "Requires a readiness to testify to an identity that is always emerging (26)..." He ends the lecture by saying what rhetoric is, "Rhetoric is love, and it must speak a commodious language, creating a world full of space and time that will hold our diversities (31)."
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SynthesisArgument as Emergence, Rhetoric as love written by Jim W.Corder it's a lecture that has order and it is easy to understand. For me Jim W.Corder had her ideas well organized making everything he wanted to say understandable; starting with his description of what authors write and how they involve in the history, I am in complete agreement. I think that the majority of the authors do write according to what they have lived, sometimes they write according to whst they are living and other times they write using a tone according to all their experience. Jim corder describes many things deeply, like he described language saying, "Language comes out of us a word at a time; we canot get all said at once (18)." The closing this lecture had left me a great impression, because it really demonstrate that Corder is a writer who really write with his feelings, with his life experience, pursuading the reader to beleive him, and from the conclusion I agree with him with what rhetoric is, "Rhetoric is love, and it must speak a commodious language, creating a world full of space and time that will hold our diversities (31). For me rhetoric has a similar meaning, it is the study of effective speaking and writting, and it is the art of persuassion.
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