They call me Greg Hafer. My major: Secondary Education with a concentration in English. This campus has turned me into a club junkie. I'm in Altar, Honors Club, Shoofly, the Environmental Club, and the Radio Club. I'm also an activist in the Sierra Club and I've been helping out with the Kutztown Democrats and the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Association. Starting this February, I'll have my own political talk show on Kutztown University Radio. As you can imagine, I got very excited when this class started out with a book called Rhetoric.
The only problem I found with the introduction of Rhetoric was Ramage's overuse of metaphors. Instead of giving metaphors, I think he could have explained rhetoric better with actual examples. Not only would this intro be more topical, but he could make a new edition when his examples become old, and therefore, he could make a little extra cash. For me, the reading wasn't unclear at all. I couldn't help applying everything I read to current political issues. I'm a C-SPAN addict. Whether it's streaming from the internet or on the TV, I'm listening to our representatives in both houses using nothing but rhetoric. Ramage mentions things like "situational ethics" and "partial truths" and "proving opposites." I could cite examples from our congressmen and women on a daily basis. I love this introduction because it gives be a better understanding of how rhetoric works. Now, whenever I have a political debate, I can go beyond calling something rhetoric and explain why it is rhetoric. Again, I don't think that this introduction was vague or all over the place, it just needs some personal application.
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