Hi, everyone.
Here are preparation notes for Thursday. We are reading Williams' lesson 10 on ethics of style along with chapter 1 of Harris's Rewriting. Between now and Thursday, I think there is more we can do to test our theory about the essence of scientific and technical discourse, at least as it is represented in publicly circulating genres. Moreover, I'm hoping we can think more deeply about how these texts argue in the stasis of cause in order to increase our certainty about possible and temporal solutions. (And of course, we need to determine whether we think this same theory illuminates Mann's essay on life expectancy and Joy's essay on 21st-century technologies -- i.e., what does the stasis of cause allow us to see about how they construct their arguments, if anything?)
So, let's look to language. We don't do this in order to read meaning into random pieces of evidence or to imply values or assumptions in language that is neutral, but rather we do this so that we can see how deeply and consistently our theory is supported by the text. Please do the following as you read:
--locate 2 examples of Harris's first move in one of the genre samples
--locate 2 examples of either ethical or unethical style (according to any of Williams' examples in lesson 10) in one of the genre samples
--be prepared to hand these in to me on Thursday so that I can use them during our workshop activity.
Have a great week until then. Happy reading,
-Professor Graban
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