WRITING TIPS LESSON
EFFECTIVE QUOTATIONS
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This lesson includes tips from the experts that I gathered over the years for writing effective quotations. First, read the two examples on this page. Then move forward to the tips. Come back to these examples and find the parts of the texts that do or do not follow the tips.
Example #1: The second rhetorical consideration is audience. Covino and Jolliffee state that, "rhetorical theory has traditionally conceived the audience as an isolated, usually antagonistic other whom rhetors have to 'address' and 'accommodate' in their texts. Clearly there are some rhetorical situations in which the transaction between the rhetor and the audience happens in exactly that way."
Example #2: The second rhetorical consideration is audience and how writers think of and relate to their audience. This relationship may be complex according to Covino and Jollifee, editors of a landmark book defining rhetoric in 1995 . However, for writing persuasive papers the relationship is fairly simple. They describe as a common relationship the idea of the writer thinking of the audience "as an isolated, usually antagonistic other" (p. 14). Using this common view of the "other," writers of persuasive papers must know their audience in order to be able to make the right choices to convince that audience.
Example #1: The second rhetorical consideration is audience. Covino and Jolliffee state that, "rhetorical theory has traditionally conceived the audience as an isolated, usually antagonistic other whom rhetors have to 'address' and 'accommodate' in their texts. Clearly there are some rhetorical situations in which the transaction between the rhetor and the audience happens in exactly that way."
Example #2: The second rhetorical consideration is audience and how writers think of and relate to their audience. This relationship may be complex according to Covino and Jollifee, editors of a landmark book defining rhetoric in 1995 . However, for writing persuasive papers the relationship is fairly simple. They describe as a common relationship the idea of the writer thinking of the audience "as an isolated, usually antagonistic other" (p. 14). Using this common view of the "other," writers of persuasive papers must know their audience in order to be able to make the right choices to convince that audience.
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Copyright Ida L. Rodgers, 2004
Updated February 3, 2012
Updated February 3, 2012