Hi everyone, my name is Kate, and I'm a senior English/Professional Writing major. After I graduate, I hope to write for a magazine or newspaper, and I want to do a lot of traveling. I just got back from San Francisco where I visited over break and it really opened my eyes to all of the opportunities that are out there.
I agree that the first chapter was a tough read, and it was difficult to find an exact definition for what rhetoric was in simple terms. But, the chapter did raise a lot of questions in my mind. Ramage made me question whether I was a Serious Person or a Rhetorical Person, and I found myself lying somewhere in the middle. Ramage says, "Serious People will consult a map... prior to embarking on their journey and will follow the most efficient route to their destination." Sometimes I get wrapped up in the routine, and find it easier to follow a predetermined path than to take past occurances into account and change my destination, as Ramage says that Rhetorical People are likely to do. Being a Serious Person all the time, however, seems uptight and very limited. Later in the chapter Ramage discusses the Slow-Food movement, and I felt myself realizing that we gain more insight and experience when we embrace variations in our daily lives, such as a surprising meal at a diner versus the predictable meal at McDonalds.
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