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Having taught Language Arts for 15 years, it is clear to me that Dr. Schuster is absolutely correct in his arguments against traditional grammar instruction. I hope he will continue to write about alternative instructional models, giving teachers support, encouragement, and appropriate materials for more effective instruction in reading and writing. His sentence combining workbook series, Sentence Mastery, is a wonderful basic text for intermediate level students wrestling with sentence development. It's hard to find, but worth it! I hope Amazon will pick it back up.

Reading "Remember My Love" was a pleasure. It's a story of redemption and self-discovery. Elise Dee Beraru's hero grows from hateful to magnificent, then backslides when he regains his memory, and in the end learns to trust himself and the love of his wife. When reading this book, be sure to have a fan and box of tissues handy. You'll need both.

This work touched me so deeply, that my ribs still ache from the penetration a year later. Amazon should be ashamed for peddling this priceless piece of poetry for this paltry pittance. This outrageous insult demonstrates how, in this neo-conservative, capitalistic society, the concept of value really isn't determined by market forces, but by the small minds, and shriveled hearts of the captains of industry.

$5.95? $5.95? I pay a hundred times that merely to bask in the memory of this work.

Clearly the talents of Mr. Fumano and his assistant Ms. Turko are wasted in the banal practice of law.

From debt to domination, never did I imagine that this subject could actually entertain as well as educate me. This could serve as a blue print for many businesses under pressure!

This book is fantastic. I highly recommend it for a mature audience!

After much searching, I'm finally rewarded with an article that demonstrates how a high standard of technical/business writing can be an effective tool for good management. The author describes a sensible solution with methodology that is scientifically proven to work -- writing for the reader, or as she puts it, Writing for Real People. She makes a great case for understanding business correspondence from the perspective of the recipient. And the outcome is impressive: 1) doubling the reader's comprehension rate; 2) promoting a team approach in an essential government agency (VA); and 3) greatly reducing support calls.

I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle.
Definition of Rhetoric- capacity of persuasion. Plato is critical of the Rhetoric and the tragic poetry. Rhetoric is approach to political public speeches in the forum. Plato thought that they clouded the mind and thus created a part of his critique of democracy in general. Plato thinks Socrates was killed by rhetoric used by the Athenian democracy. Plato feared the danger of democracy. Poetry appeals to the base human emotions rhetoric, and poetry block rational truth according to Plato. Rhetoric is psychological force of language vs. logical force of language. Psychology leads people to believe things based on emotions. Speech must appeal to the masses in a democracy. Psychology is persuasion, logic is truth. Deduction and induction is arguing logically. Plato says rhetoric is not a technç, (craft) nor is poetry, because they are undisciplined and not uniform in design. Thus, appeal to psychology and emotion can never be done away with in a democracy, thus Plato abhors them and democracy. Plato calls it sophistry this psychological appeal and democracy requires this to exist, so the problem persists. Plato is clear and consistent in his abhorrence of sophistry and democracy.

Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics are an alternative to Plato. Aristotle's rhetoric tries to strike a middle position. Aristotle says rhetoric and poetry are a technç, the Rhetoric is a handbook. Aristotle says speaker needs to appeal to appropriate information for the particular setting. Much like a lawyer's argument, not just relying on facts, need to appeal to people's emotions. Aristotle does understand that rhetoric can be used in a harmful way.

Aristotle lays out three features in rhetoric:
1. Ethos= character of the speaker, also charisma, speaker earns the audience's trust, use of body language.
2. Pathos= condition of the hearer.
3. Logos= essential bearing on political persuasion, truth.

Thus, Plato's concern by definition excludes speech because it deals with emotion. These three conditions must be in play for a speech to be successful. The rhetoric contains a detailed analysis of the different human emotions and how to elicit them in a speech. Aristotle knows the speaker must be a good student of human nature to tap into human emotions.

Epistçmç is scientific knowledge. Phronçsis is the capacity of the soul for using education, experience and habit all this is in the ethics. This is the same in political world so politics is not an episteme no scientific reasoning. The things that come up in politics are not deduced scientifically. In politics, humans use deliberation between several possible outcomes unlike math where there is only one correct answer. Political speech is contentious because the nature of politics is contentious.

There are two circumstances in rhetoric.
1. Judicial rhetoric has to do with the past like in a court case.
2. Deliberative rhetoric has to do with the future, what decision should we make in political policies.

I recommend Aristotle's works to anyone interested in obtaining a classical education, and those interested in philosophy. Aristotle is one of the most important philosophers and the standard that all others must be judged by.

Do not buy this article, borrow it from your library. Thompson Gale are corporate scalpers and I, the author, am not seeing a red cent out of these sales.

Save your money. Go down to your local library and have them get the article by Interlibrary Loan, if they don't have the journal itself already.

This book is about the factors that explain changes in international competitiveness between 1945 and the late 1980s in three industries -- steel, automobiles, and semiconductors -- in five countries: the United States, Japan, Britain, France, and Germany. It argues that the way in which countries organize themselves internally is the most important factor. Increases in competitiveness occurred in countries like Germany and Japan where there was cooperation between business and the state or between business and labor. Declines in competitiveness occurred in countries like the US and Britain where government, business or labor were dominant in the overall system and therefore did not cooperate with each other. The book argues further that increases in competitiveness occur in countries where the diffusion of new knowledge and technology is rapid and that such diffusion is easier in countries where business, government, and labor are able to work together.

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