Ethan Newhall
9/7/2014
Writ 101
Thought piece on Grant-Davie article
Congradulations! You are reading this thought piece in the hopes that you will learn what the assigned article was talking about. In this though piece we will not cover what happened in the article by why it happened. You may have noticed that is is very similar to how the Grant-Davie article opens. This is because I am trying to communicate with you the reader in order to affectivly get my point across. In order to get my point across we must first ask, what is my point? My point is my interpritation of the Grant-Davie article and what I thought about it. Second, you must ask What is the exegince behind me writing this thought piece. Third, you must ask “what is this discource about?” (Wardle/Downs pg352)Which is straight from the article itself.Then you as the reader must ask “why is this discourse needed?”(Wardle/Downs Pg353). Then ask your self “what is this discourse trying to accomplish?”(Wardle/Downs pg 353) Then you must ask who are the Rhetors? Is the only one rhetor or more? Who is the audience? And finally what are the constraints that limit this papers potential? If you as the read ask all of these questions when you read this thought piece you will notice something amazing. It covers all the main points that Grant-Davie wanted to make in his article. This is a simple stases which allows you as the reader when called upon by your professor to rhetorically analyise any work. Or if you would like the simple approch to rhetorical analisis then remember back to Grant-Davie’s intro about Ken Burn’s film on the Civil war. The reason it was so good was because instead of asking what happened and memorize these date test on Tuesday which is how history class is run. It instead asks why was each decion made and what was the immediate impact? As Grant-Davie put it “dry historical data into a human drama…”(Wardle/ Downs pg349). And the point of all of this is so we as writers , readers, and speakers to communicate better. And it all starts with asking why and how instead of what happened.
Works Cited
Wardle, Elizabeth, and Doug Downs. Writing about Writing: A College Reader. Second ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2014. Print.
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