Greetings!
It is summer, but we do have work to do. I want to encourage you to engage in your summer assignments, so from this point on, I will be posting weekly blogs to which you should respond. In Jay Heinrich's Thank You for Arguing, he opens with a tribute to John Adams and quotes him as proclaiming, " “catch from the relics of ancient oratory those
unresisted powers, which mould the mind of man to the will of the speaker,
and yield the guidance of the nation to the dominion of the voice.”". Heinrichs goes on to explain that rhetoric " teaches
us to argue without anger. And it offers a chance to tap into a source of
social power I never knew existed."
What is something you personally care about? What do you think Heinrichs means by social power? And do you personally know how to argue without anger? Make an argument about something you care about personally. All of you should post this week about these questions I am proposing. You must also respond to the post of a classmate. You can agree or disagree or qualify their argument, but you must respond without sarcasm or anger. If done properly, your post should be at least 300 words, just to give you a ballpark in regards to what I am expecting to see. Your response to your classmate should be a minimum of 50 words.
