Deconstructing the Syllabus; 1/7/2010

The course description about CMJR 320 located in our class syllabus utilizes the concept of rhetoric in several areas. Professor Bammert addresses us (the audience) first as students of journalism. This means that she recognizes that we are here to learn more about persuasive writing, which means that we are to adhere to our biases and to use our own opinions to convince others of our sound and valid argument through persuasive writing. The description advises us to first deconstruct other examples and then to use those skills towards constructing our own. Her argument is that the use of rhetoric should be broken down into an educated, critical and well-researched reasoning and that we should use the same before we are able to persuade others of our convictions and biases.