From my web research, the websites I have found on rhetoric and
rhetoricians point me to yet other websites or journals where I can find even
more information. Some of the sources I reference below are portals to numerous
sites on rhetoric, while others talk about specific rhetoricians and their works
in such a way that I want to read further and seek out the works. All in all,
I have found many sites that I want to bookmark for future reference and therefore
decided that the easiest thing would be to make this assignment into a web page.
The apparent haphazard order of the listing is based on my stream of consciousness
attack in which I let the web lead me. One site led to another which made me
think of a different search term which led me to a string of other sites. By
maintaining the order in which I found the sites, I will be reminded of how
I got from one place to another when I revisit this assignment throughout my
MSPTC curriculum, and perhaps my career.
Is this site reliable? The
Douglass Archives welcomes contributions from anyone. In fact there is a link
to submit sources. I clicked on many links on the Resources for Rhetoric page,
and found some to be interesting, others to be old, but all seemed to be written
by people in the know.
Is this site useful? This site
can be a useful portal to study rhetoric. The resources include people mentioned
in Lecture 3, such as Bolter, Burke, Aristotle, and Plato. One source I found
especially useful was the
Handbook
of Rhetorical Devices because it defines many terms and gives examples
of each. My six year old writes sentences for school and has been told by
his teacher to always include words to make the sentence "more colorful."
This handbook will help me add color to my writing.
Who is responsible? The
Annenburg Foundation.
Is this site reliable?
The Annenburg Foundation is recognized as a leader in promoting excellence
in teaching. It funds and supplies many educational programs for PBS. I took
a Spanish course in college and was able to watch all of the required videos
on Annenburg Media's Video on Demand.
Is this site useful? This site
is useful to learn about virtually anything. A search for Plato brings up
The
Western Tradition, a free video series, viewable on your computer, that
includes a section on Greek thought with Plato and Socrates and continues
to the technology of today. While the Annenburg's site's usefulness to our
studies ends there, I add it to this page in hopes of returning to it to watch
The Western Tradition series at some point.
Is this site reliable? JSTOR is widely respected as a resource for librarians and scholars.
Is this site useful? JSTOR started
as a project to make journals accessible electronically, thereby alleviating
the problem of storing hardcopy journals many libraries faced. The complete
background of JSTOR
is available on it's website. What I found to be especially wonderful is that
I can search for each and every one of the rhetoricians described in Lecture
3 and will find reviews of their books as well as some of their own articles
and texts. One I found particularly interesting was
ISOCRATE'S FELLOW RHETORICIANS
by Stanley Wilcox (
The American Journal of Philology Vol. 66, No.
2 (1945), pp. 171-186). JSTOR is available through subscription. I have access
to it through Princeton University.
Who is responsible?
TyAnna K. Herrington · Associate Professor · School of Literature, Communication, and Culture · Texas Tech University
Is this site reliable? As
it was written by a professor at Texas Tech, I assume it is reliable.
Is this site useful? My google
search for James Kinneavy lead me to the
Kinneavy
Triangle which depicts language at the center with writer, reader, and
subject having equal stakes, one at each of the three corners. Upon searching
the site further through the menu I found a section on "Analyzing Document
Development Needs" which is useful to any student struggling with the
structure of their document.
Who is responsible?
Ohio State University
Is this site reliable? This site contains scholarly journals and is run by a university and as such is considered reliable.
Is this site useful? My google
search for Adams Sherman Hill led me to
Adams
Sherman Hill Meets ENFI: An Inquiry and a Retrospective where I learned
about the teaching style of Hill and saw it compared to distance learning
style where the author struggled with controlling his online chats. Hunting
backwards to find the site origin led me to find that the site collects articles
dealing with electronic composition and as such is a good resource for anyone
pursuing a field in which they communicate electronically through writing.
Who is responsible? This
web page is an article written by
Gideon
O. Burton of Brigham Young University
Is this site useful? While this
article is really just an introduction for a better one, I felt it important
to list this article and let it point the way to the real topic because the
article shows how the author came to create his main subject,
Forest
of Rhetoric, another site I hope to spend some time reading and learning
from as I continue on this never-ending journey to <gasp> become a writer.
Book: Writing Machines by N. Katherine Hayles
Is this book useful? Writing
Machines was required reading in PTC 603 and was my favorite of all
the books we read. Hayles explored whether the visual presentation of writing
could enhance it, or even add its own meaning. My favorite part of the book
was the description of the
Humument,
which I was delighted to find online.
Hopefully
Writing Machines will prove useful to my peers who will read this in so far as to
show them how visual presentation can enhance content. An aesthetically pleasing
work will hold attention longer than the same content written in a bland fashion,
much as the dynamic speaker can present the same content as a monotone voice and
garner more attention.
Who is responsible? University of Central Oklahoma
Is this website useful? The Peter Ramus page of the
Rhetoric Cafe serves to explain Ramus' belief that there are three, not five canons of writing. The site links to explanations of the canons as well as back-linking to the Rhetoric Cafe allowing users to explore more than just Peter Ramus' philosophy.
Who is responsible? Credit line reads: Website by Jonathan. AIM/Y!=jdruy
Is this website useful? This
website is set up as a tribute blog that many have contributed to. The resources
here are countless and awe inspiring. Not only do the bloggers and comments
point to various sites about Ong, there are also links that allow one to hear
lectures given by Ong. I would venture to say that most if not all of Ong's
work has been captured and catalogued here, thereby making it extremely useful.
Who is responsible? Wikipedia
is built and edited by contributors and is gaining a large following. I am
not aware of erroneous information on Wikipedia, though I imagine it exists.
However, this particular portal links to so many other sites and includes
so many of the names used in Lecture 3, I must deem it worthy.
Is this website useful? Not
only does this portal include a history of rhetoric, it breaks rhetoric into
subsections including science and womens studies as well as many others. It
includes numerous links to other sites on rhetoric. It talks about Derrida,
Plato, Socrates, St. Augustine, to name a few, and includes links to streaming
media. I did not search for rhetoric on Wikipedia, rather I searched for John
Wilkins and was brought to Wikipedia and was astounded at the wealth of information
at my fingertips. This site is indeed useful.
