RHETORIC- Chapter One

Introduction:

Hello! My name is Christina. (Sometimes I abbreviate it as 'Ctina' because there are so many other 'Christina's... and because I get lazy.) I'm a sophomore and a Professional Writing major. I work in the English Department Office. Good times.

Chapter Reaction:

I thought it was interest that Ramage was using rhetoric, in the form of a "Rhetoric Persona" to debate the evils of rhetoric. In our culture, rhetoric is subtle and pervasive. The book itself points this out in subtle and pervasive ways. Having realized this, I spent the rest of the chapter looking for rhetoric within the words on the page. It was actually very distracting from the actual book.
The section on Act and Motion was interesting. At first, I didn’t understand what Ramage was getting at. When he mentioned that Act was like our conscious motivation but Motion was the subconscious, I had an "oh!" moment and suddenly understood it much better.
I never would have thought to compare rhetoric to cooking. It makes a lot of sense, but the suddenness and near-absurdity of the original comparison almost made me chuckle.
While certain parts of this chapter were thought provoking, I mostly found it very hard to focus. I felt like the author was trying to get at a specific point, but before he really hit it on home, he changed topics and decided he wanted to try to make another point. I felt like I had to dig through a lot of words to get to the meaning. The book has several interesting points, but I didn’t really enjoy it.