WRIT 2003 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: David Rumelhart, New Rhetorics, Linguistic Prescription

• School: York University
• Department: Writing
• Course: WRIT 2003
• Professor: John Spencer

Document Summary

One key to knowing is to use language. Language = epistemic language is how we know what we know. We use language to learn the world through speaking, thinking, writing etc. (all language acts) Writing is not primarily about communication, rather it is about composing knowledge. Paradigm: a descriptive model for systematic research which varies across disciplines. This could be different within the same discipline. Inquiry: i(cid:374)(cid:395)ui(cid:396)(cid:455) is used (cid:396)athe(cid:396) tha(cid:374) the te(cid:396)(cid:373) (cid:862)(cid:396)esea(cid:396)(cid:272)h(cid:863) because its connotations ae more generous. 5 aspects that influence an inquiry paradigm: governing gaze: a stable way on conceiving the world: positivist, phenomenological, constructivist, set of assumptions: Set of assumptions based on these stable conceptions. Positivist: a single piece of writing (cid:396)ep(cid:396)ese(cid:374)ts o(cid:374)e"s a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to (cid:449)(cid:396)ite i(cid:396)(cid:396)espe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e of the context. Ex. imposes bias, not concrete answer to many questions: a theory: the governing gaze and assumption from theories.