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J.K. Rowling's Commencement Address in 2008 J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. Text as delivered follows. Copyright of JK Rowling, June 2008 President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, prou.. 더보기
Jeff Bezos's Graduation Speech at Princeton As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix windmills, vaccinate cattle, and do other chores. We also watched soap operas every afternoon, especially "Days of our Lives." My grandparents belonged to a Caravan Club, a group of Airstream trailer owners who travel together around the U.S. and Canada. And every few summers, we'd join the caravan. We'd hitc.. 더보기
Oprah Winfrey's 2008 Stanford Commencement Address Thank you, President Hennessy, and to the trustees and the faculty, to all of the parents and grandparents, to you, the Stanford graduates. Thank you for letting me share this amazing day with you. I need to begin by letting everyone in on a little secret. The secret is that Kirby Bumpus, Stanford Class of '08, is my goddaughter. So, I was thrilled when President Hennessy asked me to be your Com.. 더보기
The Rhetoric of a Political Podcast Kevin (Kyoo Sang) JoProfessor Ellen QuandahlRWS 602 Research Project14 May 2014 The Rhetoric of Political Podcasts: A Generic Description of “Naneun Ggomsuda”IntroductionIn December 2012, the presidential election was one of the most important events in the political history in South Korea. It was the significant milestone that selected either the extension of the vested regime, which set democr.. 더보기
Composing and Reading Images Kevin (Kyoo Sang) JoProfessor Ellen QuandahlRWS 602 Weekly Paper 6March 5, 2014 For March 5, I ask you to do the project that Harris lays out on page 76. That is, when you’ve completed the readings, choose the one that most appeals to you and do the work of defining its project and its approach Defining the projectHistorically, scholarship in rhetoric and technical communication viewed images a.. 더보기
Composition Pedagogies Kevin (Kyoo Sang) JoProfessor Ellen QuandahlRWS 602 Weekly Paper 5February 26, 2014 1.Author: Peter Elbow and David Bartholomae 2.Title: Being a Writer vs. Being an Academic: A conflict in Goals (Peter)Writing With Teachers: A Conversation with Peter Elbow (David)Interchages (David and Peter) 3.Publication info: College Composition and Communication 46.1 (1995) 4.Project: Debate about composi.. 더보기
Rhetorical Landscapes Kevin (Kyoo Sang) JoProfessor Ellen QuandahlRWS 602 Weekly Paper 4February 19, 2014 Gregory Clark1.Clark’s book is about “rhetorical landscapes.” Landscape, he says, is not the same as land (9). Work out this distinction. According to his words, land is material, a particular object, while landscape is conceptual. And he also says that land becomes landscape when it is assigned the role of symbo.. 더보기
Collect and Divide Kevin (Kyoo Sang) JoProfessor Ellen QuandahlRWS 602 Weekly Paper 3February 11, 2014 1.What are some notable passages that work with those two big conceptual moves, collection and division, all and some, sameness and difference? “The family of Man, such at any rate was the original title of the exhibition which came here from the United States. The French have translated it as: The Great Family o.. 더보기
Burke Entitlement Kevin (Kyoo Sang) JoProfessor Ellen QuandahlRWS 602 Weekly Paper 2February 4, 2014 1.Author: Kenneth Burke 2.Title: What Are the Signs of What? 3.Publication info: Berkeley, University of California Press, 1966. 4.Project (Harris page 19 offers helpful questions) Aims: To shed light on the relation between words and things and to prove that things are the signs of wordsMethods: Thinking of spe.. 더보기
Identifying Writerly Moves Kevin (Kyoo Sang) JoProfessor Ellen QuandahlRWS 602 Weekly Paper 1January 28, 2014 Identifying Writerly Moves: coming to terms, forwarding and countering Taking a look at “Toward Graduate-Level Writing Instruction” by Micciche and Carr according to the Harris’ writerly moves, I found those moves mainly in the first two sections. The first section says what the author talks about in the article, .. 더보기