The sociological Imagination is a way of thinking where one can “think yourself away from the familiar routines of everyday life”. Multiple people use this on a daily basis and do not even know it. It is a useful skill that can benefit many people from doctors, attorneys, janitors, even authors. In the book, “In the Country We Love: My Family Divided” by Diane Guerrero she details her life before and after her family was deported.…
Being a first-year college student, you are introduced to the idea of critical thinking early in order to gain intellectual knowledge for creating your own structure of writing. Not only is critical thinking an essential learning process, a student’s ability to understand a comparison of sources is especially imperative for a college education due to a variety of reasons. A rhetorical analysis not only explores the content of a given source, but it also refers to what the author is trying to portray to his or her audience. Learning about the skills of rhetorical analysis teaches you how to apply these comparisons and differentiate between types of writing such as a popular or scientific article. For instance, breaking down the context of a…
Both articles use rhetorical strategies to convey the purpose of their article to the reader. Charles Murray uses interesting anecdotes, understandable logical reasoning, and relevant statistics to facilitate his non-traditional ideas clearly to the reader. On the other hand, through the use of credibility Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill uses assertions, logical reasoning, and statistics to educate the readers, however, the unintentional result is a paper with tone and word choice that is difficult to understand for much of the target audience. Therefore, the article that should be published is Charles Murray’s “Are too many people going to college?” Charles Murray’s article “Are too many people going to college?”…
" The boys on the other block were addressed as "hoods" based partly on the matter that they possessed more street and worldly smarts than educational skills. Graft points out the issue of society's view on so-called intellects and anti-intellects several times over throughout his article, Hidden Intellectual. He further identifies this problem by using vivid comparisons to indicate that a school's education is not always the only path to intelligent learning. Who's to say that reading articles from They Say, I Say and writing analytical reports is the best way to learn.…
Samual Yisehak C. Petitti ENGL 1105-42R 29 September 2016 Hidden Intellectualism Response Gerald Graff, a professor of English at the University of Illinois, wrote Hidden Intellectualism, an excerpt from the book They Say/I Say. The essay tackles the issue that one cannot be intelligent in any context except for the academic world. Intellectualism by any other subject is just as academic. I agree with Graff’s main point, however, I take umbrage with small details used in the essay.…
Graff then reveals the logical conclusion behind his adolescent story, “I see now that in the interminable analysis of sports teams, movies, and toughness…I was practicing being an intellectual before I knew that was what I wanted to be” (383). Through the analysis of street smart subjects, Graff discovers the basics of critical thinking. Thus, Graff is living proof that street smarts have intellectual depth. This in turn, reinforces the reader’s earlier insights and solidifies Graff’s argument by molding credibility with logic.…
Leonid Fridman, in his essay America Needs its Nerds, he uses the tools of rhetoric to unveil the repercussions of American’s bigotry towards intellectuals. Fridman begins his essay with accusatory terms to set a foundation for his argument.…
- In both articles, authors were talking about how the academic and non-academic learning can be more valuable in the society, we found many facts that tell us how society can respect you if you are an educated individual. “Blue-collar Brilliance”, Professor Mike Rose address that society’s blind views on the intellectual ability of the people operating jobs related to serving or manual workers. Rose indicated that blue collar workers miss focusing on the intelligence needed in their businesses. Besides, he stated that the relationship between certain never proclaims worker intelligence.…
When we think of the words nerd and geek, we think of a smart person with freckles and thick-framed glasses. They are usually bullied by the athletic people of a school and are at the lowest rung of the social ladder. But why do we also think about that same person being harmed and ridiculed? Why can’t we praise their intelligence and use it to improve our society?…
Education is a resource that is available to most people in the United States. The value and the ways it is administered often various from person to person. Michelle Obama and Mike Rose are both advocates of educational value. They exhibit their positions on education in two documents; Blue-Collar Brilliance by Mike Rose and Bowie State University Commencement Speech by Michelle Obama. Rose’s document focuses on the degrading of educational attributes that are not gained in the preferred environment such as school.…
Gerald Graff’s Project in Hidden Intellectualism Name Institution Gerald Graff’s Project in Hidden Intellectualism In his article Hidden Intellectualism, Gerald Graff attests that intellect does not exist only in the scholarly form of thinking. Instead, he argues that intellect can also take the form of “street smarts”. In his opinion, this kind of intellectualism is obscured under the mask of normal discussions about sports, soap operas, and fashion, among others. Most students harbor intellectual resources that go untapped by formal schooling.…
Ruth Rosa Ms. Dolson ENWR 105 5 October 2014 From a Consumer to a Student Mark Edmundson, author of On The Use of Liberal Education, easily criticizes the culture of education. Education is really important to many students. One goes to college to receive a degree on what they studied so that they can have a decent job. Edmundson’s article explains how universities, students and teachers focus less on education and concentrate more on a consumerist society. Edmundson focuses on the change of education; how colleges and students don’t focus on education.…
Nerds need love too In “Anti-intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids,” Grant Penrod believes that high schools do not give the same recognition to the academic clubs and intellectual students then the sports teams. He thinks this because at a high school in Arizona a football team won a state title and was recognized through state banners, assemblies, and a video announcement in their honor. While the Science Bowl Team, Speech and Debate team, and the Academic Decathlon team also won state titles the same year.…
In the essay “Hidden Intellectualism,” Gerald Graff argues intelligence is not black and white, and there can be different ways for it to be shown. Specifically, Graff believes that in academic settings students should be able to be given the chance to study subjects that interest them. As the author puts it, “But they would be more prone to take on intellectual identities if we encouraged them to do so at first on subjects that interest them rather than ones that interest us.” Although some people believe the only intelligence is shown through academic work and school, Graff insists that schools and colleges are missing an opportunity when they discourage students from turning their interests in nonacademic activities into something they…
An intellectual is defined as a person who places a high value on or pursues things of interest to the intellect or the more complex forms and fields of knowledge. This definition of an intellectual has been restricted by an educational system to mean indoctrinate students into what the system believes to be “academic”. Gerald Graff’s essay “Hidden Intellectualism” argues that there is knowledge and intelligence beyond what the traditional education system is practicing. Graff contends that incorporating the interests of students into the lesson will help students think more effectively and logically. “Intellectualism” is seen by how well a student does in traditional subjects.…