Week 4 Reading Post

So far this week we have had no required reading. I feel like Ms. Williams did a good job choosing the chapters for us to read from the book. I think that I’ve gained a much better understanding of the mechanics of arguments after reading the three chapters assigned to us. There are quite a few chapters in our textbook, but it seems like she managed to pick out the three that are most crucial to understanding our course material. And Easy Writer, besides having a goofy pun for a title, has proven to be of great assistance in writing my research paper. It’s very interesting to me that the rhetorical ideas and practices we’ve been learning about this semester were developed thousands of years ago. You have to wonder whether Aristotle or Quintillian had even the faintest idea that their works would last for such a long time. Their work has not only survived, it has flourished. Ancient Greek rhetorical concepts have been transformed into required courses for millions students of higher learning around the world. I have enjoyed this course far more than the first time I took it. That was about four years ago when College Writing II was still centered around the analysis of literary readings (gag).