The Rhetorical Stance - Booth
The Rhetorical Stance
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Wayne C. Booth
College Composition and Communication, Vol. 14, No.3, Annual Meeting, Los Angeles,
1963: Toward a New Rhetoric. (Oct., 1963), pp. 139-145.
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The Rhetorical Stance
WAYNE C. BOOTH
LAST FALL I had an advanced graduate student, bright, energetic, well-informed, whose papers vvere almost unreadable. He managed to be pretentious, dull, and disorganized in his paper on
E1nma, and pretentious, dull, and disorganized on Madame Bovary. On The
Golden Bowl he was all these and obscure as well. Then one day, toward the end of term, he cornered me after class and said, "You know, I think you were all wrong about Robbe-Grillet's Jealousy today." We didn't have time to discuss it, so I suggested that he write me a
1IIiiiiil. .1IiiiII@
Wayne C. Booth
College Composition and Communication, Vol. 14, No.3, Annual Meeting, Los Angeles,
1963: Toward a New Rhetoric. (Oct., 1963), pp. 139-145.
Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0010-096X%28196310%2914%3A3%3C139%3ATRS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8 College Composition and Communication is currently published by National Council of Teachers of English.
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Thu Jul 27 10:35:002006
The Rhetorical Stance
WAYNE C. BOOTH
LAST FALL I had an advanced graduate student, bright, energetic, well-informed, whose papers vvere almost unreadable. He managed to be pretentious, dull, and disorganized in his paper on
E1nma, and pretentious, dull, and disorganized on Madame Bovary. On The
Golden Bowl he was all these and obscure as well. Then one day, toward the end of term, he cornered me after class and said, "You know, I think you were all wrong about Robbe-Grillet's Jealousy today." We didn't have time to discuss it, so I suggested that he write me a