What stylistic language does he use?
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In brief, an interesting proposition was always the negation of an accepted one.
“What seems to be X is in reality non-X” or “What is accepted as X is actually non-X.” (Davis 1971, p. 313)
| Dichotomy | “Boring” Assumption | “Interesting” Proposition |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | disorganized | highly organized |
| Composition | homogeneous (singular) | heterogeneous (many parts) |
| Abstraction | just a collection of individuals | a holistic entity |
| Generalization | local or particular | general or universal |
| Stabilization | stable and unchanging | unstable and fluctuating |
| Function | effective | dysfunctional |
| Evaluation | is bad | is good |
| Co-relation | are unrelated | are correlated |
| Co-existence | can exist together | are incompatible |
| Co-variation | rise and fall together | rise and fall separately |
| Opposition | are similar | are opposites |
| Causation | A is the effect of B | A is the cause of B |
you position yourself as an educator. With this strategy, your job is to explain how or why something is the way it is. (Gunn 2017, loc. 413)
[a] “how-to.” Just think of an infomercial or a television cooking show, and you’ve got a good sense of this technique already (Gunn 2017, loc. 413)
fundamentally tell audiences about something, whether an event, a person, or a deed (Gunn 2017, loc. 413)
used to explain or describe the meaning of a term or concept (Gunn 2017, loc. 411)
Define a term related to class and identify what type (or combination thereof) of definition you used.
Given a ~1–2 minute impromptu speech on something that you think is interesting and why.