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Quotes: The Quick and Dirty Guide To
Use precise verbs that tell us more than say
Acknowledges
Adds
Admits
Addresses
Argues
Asserts
Believes
Claims
Comments
Compares
Confirms
Contends
Declares
Denies
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Emphasizes
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Always integrate quotes into the structure of your own
sentences.
Nonconventional:
In Genre as Social Action Carolyn Miller provides a more nuanced
explanation of the
rhetorical concept of genre. Genre, in this way, becomes more
than a formal entity; it
becomes pragmatic, fully rhetorical, a point of connection
between intention and effect, an
aspect of social action (153).
Conventional:In Genre as Social Action, Carolyn Miller provides
a more nuanced
explanation of the rhetorical concept of genre when she argues
that Genre, in this way,
becomes more than a formal entity; it becomes pragmatic, fully
rhetorical, a point of
connection between intention and effect, an aspect of social
action (153).
Impress with syntactic prowess! (varying syntactic structures
creates prose that is
stimulating and more readable)
A new type, Miller explains, is formed from typifications
already on hand when they are not
adequate to determine a new situation (157).
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Miller identifies the vast implications of rhetorical genre
theory for education as follows:
The perspectives on genres proposed here has implications not
only for
criticism and theory, but also for rhetorical education. It
suggest that what welearn when we learn a genre is not just a
pattern of forms or even a method of
achieving our own ends. We learn, more importantly, what ends we
may
haveL we learn that we may eulogize, apologize, reccomend one
person to
another, instruct customers on behalf of a manufacturer, take on
an official
role, account for progress in achieving goals. (165)
Adding or Omitting words in quotes.
Situations, Miller tells us, are social constructs that are the
result...of definition (156).
Miller argues that in order to understand recurrence, it is
necessary [that we] reject the
materialist tendencies in situation theory (156).
Framing
Carolyn Millers Genre as Social Action allows us to see genre as
something that creates
possible situations and actions. Genres are not only, as she
asserts, ways to achieve
particular goals. Genres represent the goals themselves, what
can be accomplished in asituation. This line of thinking might also
be applied it typical genres in psychology. The
genres analyzed in this essay show that these textual
typications represent a range of
possible actions available for someone working in this
field.
