For my fourth blog I will be discussing ‘”Introduction”‘ to Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric In Contemporary America.” This piece was made by Carl G. Herndl, who works in the English department at the University of Southern Florida and Stuart C. Brown, who works in the school of biological sciences at the university of Adelaide. I believe that the primary audience of this text is the general public. I struggled to find an exact definition of rhetoric in this passage, but I believe that they were implying that rhetoric can only be used to describe something up to the point that we’ve made words to describe something. In other words we can only describe something if it has words that are capable of being used to describe that specific thing. The main argument of this text is that we can see nature in three different ways ethnocentric (ethos), anthropocentric (logos), and ecocentric (pathos). The texts primary rhetorical purpose is to inform and persuade.
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This is a good analysis of the article. I agree with the majority of what you wrote, such as the purpose, the main argument, and the ethos of the authors. However, I think the primary audience is academics. Also, I had a different understanding of their definition of rhetoric. I can see what you mean with how they discussed the importance of rhetoric in altering how people talk about and perceive the world. But I think they saw rhetoric as an important part of people’s actions and interactions with the world, as well as what you said about how people describe the world.
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I really enjoyed your analysis of the article. As I said in class, I found this article to be much more difficult than Edbauer’s and struggled to find the definitions for the blog post. I think that I might have not read as actively as I have in the past because after toady’s discussion, I realized that a lot of the concepts were right in front of me. I really liked your interpretation of the main argument of the text. Before class today, I was oblivious to the authors’ personal definitions of ethos, logos, and pathos, but now can see their importance and the connection to the model they proposed.
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I also found the concepts article in the article difficult at the time of reading it, and I felt that our discussion in class cleared up a lot of questions I had.
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