Composition Is Not Rhetoric, Sharon Crowley and Goodbye
Wow! I think that this might be one of the most interesting pieces that we have read this semester! I think that I agree with her in part but it's interesting that all the rhetoric that we have read this semester has been in the form of a composition, even if the earliest ones from the Greek and Roman times were originally speeches. I also think that it's interesting that she is trying to "intervene in civic discourse, using topics, genres, conventions, and figures taught in school by rhetoricians" and say that composition isn't rhetoric when she is clearly trying to lay down some rhetoric with this composition. I think if I were to rewrite this piece I would call it "Not All Composition is Rhetoric" because I get it, not every piece of composed writing is rhetorical, especially those written in lower classes because those students are just learning how to write, not to persuade. But I would argue that as we 'grow up' in our education I think tha...