Hey all, this is Cory (Cory M Mull as most know me -- literary greats among the likes of Bill Gates, Donald Rumsfeld, Oprah, Jebus, Toukan Sam and Colin Blair all know me by that name). My hobbies include reading the day before an assignment is due (although, this was not the case here--I only had to read about 15 pages today), skipping along sidewalks in mid-afternoon and recalling drunken nights of text-messages.
So now that you have the basic summary of my life, I might as well delve into the nonsense that is "rhetoric." What a bunch of hoo-ha this is. Not only is it nearly impossible to decipher, it's wildly over written, provides too many accounts of pointless metaphors and doesn't connect with my meager little mindset. When a book tells you, "what we won't do in this chapter is tell you flat out what rhetoric is..." then by all accounts in my mind, there will be a problem. Um, if you're not going to tell me literally, what's the point? Can't definitions be told in less than,I don't know....a book? Yes, I understand the complexities of this word "rhetoric" and the many fascinating areas of study here, but to sit and read page after page of endless material, it just doesn't connect. There are moments, few moments, when this book details the simple nature of rhetoric, but then that simple context is masked by 2,000 words of random anecdotes about how the author wants to become an NBA center, but didn't inherent the characteristics of such genes. Wait, what? When does the NBA come into play here? I'm confused.
Fitting, after 60 pages of utter beffudlement.
But I must say: that's why we have you, TEACH!
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