Paper??

Hi everyone. I am not sure what I want to write for my paper because I don't know what the paper is about yet! I am assuming Ramage and rhetoric, of course. Maybe we will find out tonight in class, and then I can elaborate.
I thought that this chapter was soooo much easier to understand. I could actually highlight and take notes! Yay! If we do get to choose any concepts from Rhetoric to write about in our papers, I would choose those from Chapter 3, concepts like relativism and pluralism, ethos, and the rhetorical situation.
I also noticed that in this chapter, I am beginning to see places throughout the book where Ramage is practicing his own rhetoric. When he talks about "self-interference", I realized that he did that in Chapter 1, with his anti-rhetoric spokesperson. Also, he says that authors of literary texts must present some contrasting ideas, and he does, with the use of "serious people" and "rhetorical people".
In this chapter after he talked about the continuum of persuasion, and I realized that his book would fall under literary texts area, because Ramage is practicing a type of persuasion. He wants his audience to believe or at least consider that rhetoric is useful and necessary in today's world for sorting out problems and expressing ourselves.
So Hopefully we can do our papers on any chapter, because this one was much smoother sailing for me than the first two! (Not saying that it was too easy; I mean that I just wasn't pulling my hair out in frustration this time!)
--Devon