Center for writing and rhetoric

February 1, Keynote Speaker: Early submissions are encouraged. A graduate-student-organized conference, the RRGSC engages emerging scholars in current and controversial conversations; its conference themes have attracted students from across the US.

The two presented here are Status and Appeals. Classical rhetoricians like Cicero and Aristotle posed the following 4 questions to work through before writing: Is there an act to be considered? How can the act be defined?

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How serious is the act? Should this act be submitted to some formal procedure? Will you get your paper written just with these questions?

No, but if you begin here, you will clarify what you are going to argue, and that leads to a high quality paper. Rational Appeals In ancient Greece and Rome, orators spent a great amount of time on status and on figuring out which of the appeals below best fit the subject.

They are classified by the type of organization they provide. This list is taken from Four Worlds of Writing 2nd ed.

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If you want to argue something commonly held, you can use the above rational appeals, and you can, if you have quotes, fully quote the opposition before you argue it. Allow yourself to point out at least one valid claim the opposition has before you argue it.

Arguing without doing so makes your argument unbalanced and your thinking ungenerous. Affective Appeals Imagine your reader after he or she has read your paper: What do you have to do in your writing to evoke that response?

If your audience is a college professor seeking to enhance your upper-division writing skills in a WAC course, I imagine that that professor will want the following things:Welcome. The Center for Writing Studies is an interdisciplinary academic unit at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that facilitates research and promotes graduate study in the areas of written composition, language, literacy, and rhetoric.

Uses Scope.

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Scholars have debated the scope of rhetoric since ancient times. Although some have limited rhetoric to the specific realm of political discourse, many modern scholars liberate it to encompass every aspect of culture.

Communication, in General. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw. If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.

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In a landmark collaboration, five co-authors develop a theme of ordinary disruptions ("the everyday") as a source of provocative learning moments that can liberate both student writers and writing center staff.