Comments on: Developing rhetoric http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/developing-rhetoric/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Michael http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/developing-rhetoric/#comment-2237 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:31:35 +0000 http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/?p=1124#comment-2237 I totally agree. As a person with a stammer, I often found in college, much to my pain that reading from a prepared script often caused me to trip over myself and cause my speech to become unrecognisable.

Being over prepared can hinder some people, especially those with stammers

]]> By: Vincent http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/developing-rhetoric/#comment-2236 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:15:07 +0000 http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/?p=1124#comment-2236 Keep that big wide brush to yourself. The National University is not a bit like that.
And anyway you should be much kinder to both NUI and the DU, did they not suppress their natural instinct of nailing the youngster to a rock on the side of a mountain and allowing it to waste away.

And were you a student ‘at’ TCD or ‘in’ TCD….

]]> By: Perry Share http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/developing-rhetoric/#comment-2234 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:50:07 +0000 http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/?p=1124#comment-2234 Well said – in all respects. The same arguments could be made about academic writing! Far too many people seem to think that it needs to be turgid, verbose and circuitous! This is why I like the way (some) American academics tend to write – possibly because Americans study (or at least used to) composition and rhetoric. See the works of journalism professor Michael Pollan for a great example of such an approach.

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