Guitarsophist | Music-Rhetoric-Teaching
Mythopoetic Imagining – Short Fiction, Reviews, and Random Musings
Description: Integrating Reading and Writing Instruction by John R. Edlund
Integrating Reading and Writing Instruction by John R. Edlund
I’m doing a session at the ERWC conferences this year. The northern conference is in Sacramento on June 20, 2023. The southern conference is in Pomona on June 26. I’ll be at both of them. This is the 20th anniversary of ERWC. I haven’t been involved for about five years, so it will be exciting to see all the new developments.
My session will be on applying Kenneth Burke’s pentad—Act, Agent, Scene, Agency, Purpose—using the ratios that appear when the terms are combined. Too often, students trying to use the pentad simply label the elements of the rhetorical situation with the five terms. This is only a first step. Burke’s question, however, is “From whence does motivation flow?” What pentadic element motivates the act? When we use the pentad as a checklist we end up with a static picture and we miss the movement of motivation an
Guitarsophist | Music-Rhetoric-Teaching
Mythopoetic Imagining – Short Fiction, Reviews, and Random Musings