INSTRUCTIONS:
1. What is writing about?
2. As an exercise, pick one sample passage from the authors you have studied from the imitation section of Corbett's Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student which you admire and appreciate. Identify one PROMINENT feature in this passage that attracts your attention. Explain the effect the author achieved--or was trying to achieve. What did the author do to achieve this effect? (e.g. Did 'the tools' used serve a purpose? Were they effective? Was the effect appropriate for the purpose of the passage?) Provide examples. What can you infer the general style of the author based upon this sample?
3. Pick one sample passage from the authors you have studied from the imitation section of Classical Rhetoric which you admire and appreciate. Explain what particular feature(s) about this passage you find ATTRACTIVE and EFFECTIVE, some feature(s) worth appropriating. Explain how the author was able to achieve this desirable effect. What did the author do to achieve this effect? (e.g. Did 'the tools' used serve a purpose? Were they effective? Was the effect appropriate for the purpose of the passage?) Generally, in what contexts would this effect be appropriate? Provide examples to illustrate your point.
1. What is writing about?
2. As an exercise, pick one sample passage from the authors you have studied from the imitation section of Corbett's Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student which you admire and appreciate. Identify one PROMINENT feature in this passage that attracts your attention. Explain the effect the author achieved--or was trying to achieve. What did the author do to achieve this effect? (e.g. Did 'the tools' used serve a purpose? Were they effective? Was the effect appropriate for the purpose of the passage?) Provide examples. What can you infer the general style of the author based upon this sample?
3. Pick one sample passage from the authors you have studied from the imitation section of Classical Rhetoric which you admire and appreciate. Explain what particular feature(s) about this passage you find ATTRACTIVE and EFFECTIVE, some feature(s) worth appropriating. Explain how the author was able to achieve this desirable effect. What did the author do to achieve this effect? (e.g. Did 'the tools' used serve a purpose? Were they effective? Was the effect appropriate for the purpose of the passage?) Generally, in what contexts would this effect be appropriate? Provide examples to illustrate your point.