Hummingbird Hill Studio
Dynamic Design
with the five classical canons of rhetoric
Linda Digby McFarland, M.A.
Dynamic Design with the five classical canons of rhetoric Linda Digby McFarland, M.A.
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Composition Quotes . . .Verbatim . . . from My Freshman Students' Reflections (Each quotation is the property of its author and is excerpted here with the permission of its author). Gail: "I never knew anything about the five canons of Rhetoric writing till I took this class. It does help you prepare a paper for class. Instead of just writing something down and turning it in, you actually have a format or platform to go off of and it helps organize your writings." Sharon: "Sorting out the five canons and applying it to my 'Special Paper', enabled me to strategize my writing." Charles: ". . . the effective use of the canons will produce a work that conveys the author’s thoughts in an easy to read form." Ramtin: "Composing a paper and designing a quilt . . . have a lot in common. In order to write a paper, we have to come up with a brainstorm of data which presents the first canon or Invention; the same thing happens with designing a quilt. Arrangement's role is obvious in both cases. Without having a proper arrangement our work would not be presentable. Also, Style seems to be common in both processes; that is why everybody's writing or quilt is a unique piece of work by itself (as long as they have not been copied from each other). Memory can . . . help with new ideas either for writing or making a quilt. Delivery is . . . very significant since without audience there would not be much to do with your work." Nathan: "I think that memory is the most important part of any essay. It helps to describe certain smells, action . . . It makes the reader feel like they are in the paper." Brandi: "The meaning of a work is dependent on the memories of its audience. As people relate what they see to what they know, the meaning is unique to the individual." Jessie: "I am a better visual learner and this presentation visually showed me writing. This presentation . . . should be used by every teacher who teaches a writing . . .class." Kim: "The analogy of designing quilts to composing a paper was an immense visual. It defined the differences between invention, arrangement, and style. Some of the quilts have the same shapes and patterns, but the arrangements and inventions were completely different. It is the same way with writing . . ." Lorraine: " . . . in the story that I told I put in a lot of thought and heart so I think it is a personal style." Whitney: "Putting your own trademark on your piece of work, whether that be a quilt or written assignment, is known as style." Ashley: "I liked the analogy of the five cannons of rhetoric being related to the designing of a quilt. You invent what it would look like, arrange the pieces, create the style, make it through memories of other quilts you have seen, and deliver it the finished product. Learning the five cannons made writing papers a lot easier." Glennis: "I enjoyed the analogy of the quilts to composing a paper. Before that lesson was taught, I did not grasp the concept of the five canons of rhetoric . . . Each of the five Canons of Rhetoric possesses its own identity in your writing." LaShondra: "The most profound area of rhetoric is the art of it." Ramtin: "To me, the whole book is a quilt . . . they are all different essays, different events, different times, and different people . . . different opinions and subject matters . . . they have one factor in common, they are all beautiful and artistic. That is why we have all those essays in one book and now I know why the book is called "The Art of the Personal Essay"!
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