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Rice, Jeff – Composition Studies, 2011
Walter Ong tells us that the noetic--the rhetorical characteristics of feeling, sensation, and intuition applied to a given communicative situation or act--stems from the oral tradition. The noetic contrasts with the print legacy of argument in which "teaching something is the same as 'proving' it'" ("Ramus" 156). Ong's sense…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Oral Tradition, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction