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Richard Weaver on Logic and Rhetoric, with a few applications to Debate
I’ve been posting quite a bit on the necessity for formal grammar instruction lately, and I will continue to do so in the days to come, God willing. Grammar is a language study, one of the three… more →
Quiddity
Richard Weaver on Logic and Rhetoric, with a few applications to Debate
Andrew Kern wrote 3 weeks ago: I’ve been posting quite a bit on the necessity for formal grammar instruction lately, and I wi … more →
Plutarch on Mark Antony
Andrew Kern wrote 1 month ago: …he left Italy and travelled into Greece, where he spent his time in military exercises and in … more →
Two Andrews On Writing and Teaching Writing
Andrew Kern wrote 2 months ago: I just finished a four city tour with Andrew Pudewa of Institute for Excellence in Writing and what … more →
Your theory of writing
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Andrew Kern wrote 2 months ago: People of a more practical bent will sometimes suggest they don’t have a theory. Others argue … more →
What About the Great Books
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Andrew Kern wrote 2 months ago: I believe the author of the blog Quid Est bears the name Jennifer, and she generously quoted an earl … more →
Modern and Classical Writing Compared
Andrew Kern wrote 3 months ago: Thought begins with perception and continues through comparison. Angelina in Louisiana is a college … more →
An example of the seemingly trivial sort of thing about which one might compose an essay and still find his time suitably used without the slightest trace of idleness
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Andrew Kern wrote 3 months ago: In my post on 9/17/09 I suggested that you need not fall into the pit of anxiety when seeking out a … more →
Form and creativity
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Andrew Kern wrote 3 months ago: Form does not limit creativity. It is the vessel in which creativity abides. It is the synergistic f … more →
Judge not, Lest You Be
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Andrew Kern wrote 3 months ago: Every statement is, by its nature, a judgment. That one, for instance. In it, I have judged that eve … more →
Classical Education in Corinth (I)
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Andrew Kern wrote 4 months ago: The Corinthian church of the first century has rather a bad reputation, but I wonder if people thoug … more →
Aristotle, Rhetoric, and Freedom
Andrew Kern wrote 4 months ago: I’ve been arguing for some time through this blog that we cannot be free people if we don … more →
Learning The Craft of Writing
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Andrew Kern wrote 6 months ago: In my earlier posts on What is Writing, I suggested that we have to attend to two elements of writin … more →
Assessment and Feedback for a Written Composition
Andrew Kern wrote 9 months ago: The Teacher’s guide for level II of The Lost Tools of Writing has been demanding an inordinate … more →
Word of the Day: Alderbest
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Andrew Kern wrote 9 months ago: Not that I often have these words, but I really like this one. It’s an antique word, obviously … more →
CCR 731
bjbailie wrote 9 months ago: Rhetoric in the European Tradition Chapter Four: “Rhetoric in the Latin Middle Ages” Tho … more →
Rhetoric and Jindal: Part 1
danielleandrews wrote 9 months ago: For me, Bobby Jindal’s GOP response to President Obama’s address to congress, is colored … more →
CCR 731
bjbailie wrote 10 months ago: From Institutes of Oratory Quintilian Rhetoric in the European Tradition Thomas Conley Chapter Three … more →
CCR 731
bjbailie wrote 10 months ago: Rhetorica ad Herennium Anonymous De Oratore Cicero From Orator Cicero Rhetoric in the European Tradi … more →
Musings on Georgias' "Helen"
danielleandrews wrote 10 months ago: In defending Helen, Georgias enumerates and expounds reasons for Helen’s innocence, one bein … more →
