Rhetoric
Rhetoric Midterm

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As a guide to the kinds of questions I'm looking for, use the 30 midterm review questions posted on the EXAMS page of the course website. As an alternative to writing out an answer, you can refer us to a particular page in one of our textbooks or a page (provide URL) on our course website. You may post as many questions and answers as you like up until the evening of the midterm exam. However, I will have finished making up the exam by Sunday night, October 21, so if you'd like to see your question considered for the exam, post it by Sunday evening. I can't promise that I'll use your question (or even a version of it), but the review should be helpful in any case. Each evening I'll check the postings on the forum and correct or delete any misinformation that I might find there. Posting questions and answers isn't a requirement, but there's not a single good reason not to post at least one Q & A.



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Subject:   Q&A for Midterm Exam
Name:   Nordquist
Date Posted:   Oct 18, 07 - 4:18 PM
Email:   engl5730@lycos.com
Website:   http://www.nt.armstrong.edu/rhetoric.htm
Message:   #1 SAMPLE QUESTION
* In Book One of Rhetoric, Aristotle counters several of Plato's assertions in the Gorgias by insisting that rhetoric is artistic (rather than "unscientific"), the counterpart of dialectic (rather than cookery), and a morally neutral tool (rather than a tool of wrongdoers). In addition, whereas Plato had argued that rhetoric is of no use to the virtuous man, Aristotle identifies four important uses of rhetoric. Briefly, identify three of these uses.

#1 SAMPLE ANSWER
Aristotle believed that rhetoric was useful because (1) while not everyone may be capable of philosophical instruction, all should be capable of understanding based on common beliefs and community values. Also (2), rhetoric allows people to see both sides of an argument from equal vantage points. And finally (3), rhetoric is morally justified in that every individual should be capable of using speech as a means of self-defense.
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Re: Q&A for Midterm Exam by LAURA STEPHENS · Oct 19, 07 - 12:04 PM
Re: Q&A for Midterm Exam by Karen · Oct 20, 07 - 6:54 PM
Re: Q&A for Midterm Exam by Nordquist · Oct 21, 07 - 3:04 PM


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