Rhetoric
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For this week’s assignment, I chose an article about the Trump administration’s plan to shrink and restructure the Department of Education. What stood out to me right away is how much the entire debate relies on strategic language. Supporters frame the changes as reducing “heavy-handed federal intervention” and “right-sizing” the department, while critics argue the
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An anti-textbook? That definitely sounds intriguing, particularly to a college student. With Richard Lanham’s Style: An Anti-Textbook, I was immediately drawn to the idea of something that questioned the rules of writing instead of worshiping them. Most writing guides feel like they’re trying to sand you down until nothing sticks out. Lanham does the opposite. This
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