Blog 8

In chapter 8 of ARCS, the idea that rhetors today often accept written and published works as trustworthy. I couldn't disagree more. In today's society, I feel as though there are more untrue things written down than true. I don't mean to offend anyone, but take religion for example - how is it possible that every single relgious document could be taken as true? Perhaps one is correct, or perhaps none are. There is absolutely no way of knowing. Even religions within religions contradict one another. Christianity for example has many different facets. There is absolutely no way each of them could be true. So if something as universal as relgion is not true, who is to say that someone who has written an article is speaking the truth? I don't believe most of the things i read. This includes news articles. All too often the truth is bended or made into something it is not. If I write that I saw a unicorn in a stall next to a horse, does that make it true? No. So I wholeheartedly disagree with anyone who says that something written down should be accepted as true.

Blog 6

Boethius brought up several key points involving rhetoric of oration. He talked about how important invention, arrangement, style, memory and delivery are. He focuses a lot on the art of oration and how effective it can be. His values and opinions remain important today, however they've changed drastically as we are no longer an oral cultured society. We are much more concerned with writing, and print and being able to see or read something rather than hearing things. His rules still apply to everything written. we use each of those aspects when we compose a paper, a blog or advertisement. Rhetoric has not changed all that much since its inception. We still use the foundations in which it was founded on to create a successful argument. The only difference is that we usually have something in two mediums. For instance, a speech is still spoken, however it is usually written down first. And advertisements can be heard on a radio, or viewed in a magazine - they may not have the exact same content, but they convey the same point. We must adjust the use of Boethius' points in our arguments depending on which method we choose to communicate with.