The common ingredient that I find in all the writing I admire ... is something that I shall reluctantly call the rhetorical stance, a stance which depends on discovering and maintaining in any writing situation a proper balance among the three elements that are at work in any communicative effort: the available argument about the subject itself, the interests and peculiarities of the audience, and the voice, the implied character of the speaker. I should like to suggest that it is this balance, this rhetorical stance, difficult as it is to describe, that is our main goal.-- Wayne Booth
Do colleges and universities need to change to accommodate students once excluded from the university?
Should colleges and universities emphasize a unified view of culture and the commonalities among people, or should they emphasize people's differences?
What is (and should be) the relationship between the college/university and society?
What should be the relationship between teachers and students in the classroom?
In what ways is knowledge acquired, passed on, or made in college/university? Are some better than others?
You may use the above questions as starting places to focus your paper, or you may wish to develop your own question for a focus and try to answer it. The final draft should be in the 6 page range (double spaced, MLA format with a Works Cited page, not included in the final pagination). Initial first draft (3 pages) is due by the end of the week (post to forum). The second draft should be completed by next Tuesday. And the third draft is a careful edit, again working with your partners.