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Robert Proctor Ignorance

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In “Agnotology: A Missing Term to Describe the Cultural Production of Ignorance (and Its Study)” Robert Proctor elaborates on how ignorance affects us within our society and the diverse ways that it can be applied. To an audience of college students and aspiring writers, Robert Proctor writes an informative short essay to explore the inner workings of ignorance and discover what happened to this missing knowledge. We know Proctors audience because at the end of the text he goes into detail how he was able to come up with the word Agnotology. The text was written in long paragraphs with two main parts to it. Then it slits off into smaller sections with the two main ones. There were a ton of small narratives throughout the writing. Proctor uses

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