When I first read the title of the article “The Problem with Lecturing” I was immediately drawn to the subject at hand. Being a student who has struggled in the past with the teaching method of lecture classes, I was curious as of what aspect Emily Hanford was going to write about. I was curious to see what appeal she would use to make her point. Would she use ethos, logos, pathos or a combination of all three? And at what point would her kairos moments appear. To my delight, Emily touched base on may different aspect of the problem with lecturing including, but not limited to, testing understanding once lectured (ethos), professors taking the matter to heart of its lack of effectiveness (pathos) , and the importance of professors …show more content…
She has a degree in English and American Studies from Amherst College ("American Radioworks"). As it is noted her background and work history gives Hanford credibility as a writer and solid evidence as of why one may trust her concern and observation on the subject of education. As well as being an honored journalist. Next, as an appeal to logic Hanford begins by sharing about two professors in the late 1970 from two different well know college who were perplex that semester after semester there students were not receiving rating above the 40 percent mark on their exams because of the lecturing method that were being used. To further convince the reader about her concern about the problem with lecturing she continues to share about Hestenes and Hallouns testing methods, which were created specifically to probe student understand of physics. This test was known as Force Concept Inventory (FCI), which was used to track the conceptual understanding of physics. She states that Hastenes and Hallouns gave the test to 1000 students who attended two different schools and had seven different instructors and noted that each class was taught in traditional lecture style. Each student was given the test at the beginning of the semester and at the end of a traditional lecturing semester on physics. The testing had found that there was only a 14% growth of conceptual understanding of physics. These uses of logos give her concern
According to Richard Lanham, Rhetorical Man is identified as actor whose sense of identity depends on the support of “daily histrionic reenactment.” I see this kind of person as lively as well as dramatic. By identifying as an actor, Rhetorical Man, I assume, can adjust themselves to any ‘character’ they put on. This is not to say that they do not have their own characteristic. They do. However, their nature selves are not rigid. They are fluid to adapt to the situation they have. Moreover, this person is believed not to dwell in a single value structure for they have several which change constantly. Therefore, they occupy a complex and dramatic reality. Rhetorical man is also perceived as an explorer of resources.
The short story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate O’Flaherty Chopin is about a young woman who is told of her husband’s death and how, in one hour, her life was changed forever. Kate’s life was in some ways similar to that of Mrs. Mallard’s, I believe her true feelings were reflected in her many writings.
In paragraphs 29-31, Swift mentions several expedients, such as taxes, wearing homemade clothes, rejecting foreign luxury, curing vices among women, instilling the virtues of patriotism, taxing the absentees, and rejecting divisiveness while promoting honest, industry, and skill. Swift’s speaker stated at the end of all his expending, “How preceptors!” Swift’s rhetorical purpose is to make the reader realize that he is ironic as well as understand what he actually stands for. The reader learns that Swift is forced to resort to ironic tone to reveal his true intention, which would otherwise go unnoticed. Swift is ironic because there is no way his expedients could succeed in a time that Ireland was in, he was mainly trying to highly the economic problems affecting the county at the time.
Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera and professor at Stanford University, gave a talk at TEDGlobal in 2012. The audience involved a variety of people with different backgrounds and levels of understand of technology. Nonetheless, she ensure the topic was well suited to the entire audience.
Living in a country that provides access to great health care, one would expect the United States to have a sufficient supply of medical professionals such as doctors. After all, the country has a booming population and is home to many respected institutions with driven and compassionate medical students. However, in the March 3, 2015 edition of The Washington Post, Lenny Bernstein addresses a relatively new problem in healthcare. In the article, “U.S. Faces 90,000 Doctor Shortage by 2025, Medical School Association Warns”, Bernstein successfully creates a real sense of this crisis through his use of logos and diction to address the expected shortage of medical doctors.
My, writing strategy utilizing rhetorical knowledge has been significantly improved through concentrated techniques aimed at developing paragraph construction by use of rhetorical modes.
This is an article wrote by Mark Edmundson, a professor at the University of Virginia. In this article, Edmundson starts out with how he dislikes that people say something to the effect of teachers learn from their students. He goes on to say how he does learn more about how to teach based on the feedback he gets from his students.
The chapter “What Is Writing?” that is part of the book “A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers” by Erika Lindemann emphasizes writing as a method that is used for communication. To analyze the elements of the communication process, Lindemann presents a triangle of communication that shows four main components that include the writer, the reader, the subject and the message. Furthermore, Lindemann includes Jakobson´s communication triangle to target more elements into the explanation of the writing process.
In the story on one of the very first pages Tim O’Brien was talking about how in your childhood everybody always thinks that they will amount to be a hero and maintain all of those qualities, however, all he felt was shame. Following this he was talking about how he felt as if he was a coward and how he didn’t assume that he had the courage to go against the grain. From all of this I was envisioning that he didn’t have enough guts to go to Canada for the reason that if he did, I don’t feel that he would have regretted his decision. Tim O’Brien would have done not only what he wanted; on the other hand, what he felt was right for him. Then later on in the story when Mr. O’Brien was expressing how horrible his job was at the meat packing plant was and how the pigs were en route to the slaughter I took it as is was of foreshadowing. I saw this as foreshadowing as a result of him being sent to war, it was as if he was the pig, the soldier, going to be slaughtered, at war, as if he had no chance or say in the situation he was about to be forced into.
Anti-smoking advertisements occasionally pop up throughout our society which is often showing the viewers the harmful effects of tobacco through startling images. This advertisement uses the elements of ethos, pathos, and logos in order to make people rethink about smoking. The video advertisement uses children to make a point across by showing real scenarios on the effects of smoking. It shows that the commonplace for smoking, in today’s time, is acceptable for teenagers to smoke and jump to an assumption that children are starting to try it. Once the children are introduced into this advertisement pathos is
Rhetoric is a significant part of our everyday lives. Whether it's convincing our friends to go to a concert on the weekend, to go to a certain place for lunch, or even convincing yourself to do something that you should but don't want to do. Rhetoric is all around us today. Billboard ads, television commercials, newspaper ads, political speeches, even news stories all try, to some degree, to sway our opinion or convince us to take some sort of action. If you take a step back to look and think about it, rhetoric, in all actuality, shapes our lives. Every day we have an array of options of things to do or things to buy. So every day, our opinion or actions are being influenced, however minutely, by rhetoric.
Rhetoric is a course in which students are taught the values of persuasion. And yet, behind this course is the utmost power to corrupt the world, changing it into a world of our own policies. This power, even though seldom discussed, has lead to many intriguing discoveries. One such discovery is how people are able to shape the world they live in simply by choosing the right words. Therefore those who would want the world to be a better place must protect this power. If in the wrong hands this power could cause serious damage. Several authors have striven to protect rhetoric and its power. Few agree on the matter of defining rhetoric, but they know that they must protect rhetoric from dark souls. A single definition of rhetoric must maintain a simplistic nature while incorporating every aspect of rhetoric. However, I argue that rhetoric is a means of persuading audiences of a situation and a particular reality through language and personal appeal. In order to prove this definition I will discuss how rhetoric creates a situation, the shaping of a different reality, the audience, the use of language, and the personal appeal. Finally, I will demonstrate the absolute need for rhetoric.
The first rhetorical device Tannen cites is her personal experience as a professor. Throughout her many years of teaching, she adduces a plethora of previous closely monitored observations of her classes. While teaching is her occupation, Tannen resorts to a more facilitative role in the classroom, which enables students to have their own discussions on the relevant topics. In turn, this also empowers her observations of the use of language within each discussion. In my judgment, this approach of letting the students run classes encourages intellectual critical thinking rather than passive listening, in which one awaits an idea to pop into his or her head while the professor is lecturing and spout it off when they devise it. Tannen’s extensive background allowed her to research how her
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During my current position as a Teaching Associate (and Affiliated Lecturer) I wrote and delivered the core second-year course of eight lectures, and facilitated eight MPhil seminars, in Economic Anthropology. I also wrote and delivered two lectures concerning the anthropology of welfare and social protection, supervised over forty students for the papers SAN1, SAN2, S5 and SAN8, and supervised an undergraduate dissertation. My effectiveness as a lecturer is attested by a quantitative evaluation, in which I received 88% for how interesting the material was, and 90% for how clearly this material was presented. One part IIA student provided the following in their feedback form at the end of the SAN2 economic anthropology lecture course: “My favourite lectures of the year. I thought I didn’t like economic anthropology because I didn’t understand it. These lectures clearly explained concepts with a diverse range of ethnographies. I am now doing my dissertation in economic anthropology! Thank you!”. This quote encapsulates my approach to lecturing in which I clearly explain theoretical approaches using ethnographic examples. In some lectures I aim to provide a coherent overview of a particular topic, while in others I explicate particular concepts and theories using a more circumscribed set of literature. Aside from teaching economic anthropology and supervising students, I would also welcome the opportunity to teach research methods. I recently co-facilitated a five-day