Amanda Whitaker
English 102, MWF 9:00-9:50
September 15th, 2014
Rhetorical Analysis Rough Draft

INTRO

When one writes an article, they choose what type of words they are going to use. They decide what phrases to use. This is called Diction. When Corder was writing this article, I think that he knew it was going to be hard to understand. He used a lot of metaphors to help the readers understand exactly what he was talking about. When there is a metaphor, it’s a lot easier to understand and find the point of the writing. The first metaphor that I noticed was narrative. Corder says, “…each of us creates the narrative that he or she is,” (16). One might have no clue what he meant by narrative. As one gets into the article further, they notice …show more content…
Narrative is life; our life. The stories that we tell are influenced by other people. That is when argument comes into play. Argument is what we are. When we feel strongly about something, whether it be positive or negative, we want to defend it. If another narrative disrupts what we feel strongly about, an argument can form. We see what we want to see and not what other people see. While in an argument, no one person wants to change. Corder is saying that we need to take time to listen and understand where the opposite person’s opinions are coming from. We don’t know what has happened to them for them to have these specific feelings. If something altered their decision, we should listen for it and try to understand. Corder says if we refrain from evaluating and instead, “listen with understanding,” we will “see the expressed idea and attitude from the other person point of view,” (20). This goes right into the barriers we have in place. We judge other narratives. It’s a natural bias that we do. When we see something new, we decide whether or not we want it in our narrative or not. We have already formed conceptions of the world. There will always be a history. Corder’s diction was the use …show more content…
He then brings in other scholars points of view. In his point of view, Corder says that we tell our live and live our tales. We will always have a history so why not make it the best we can. We need to try to understand how we got to where we are. Corder believes that everything we do makes our future and everything we did made our history. Corder says, “None of us lives without history…” (16). He also supports this by saying, “…there is always a tale of how we came to stand there…” (16). He also believes that our lives, narratives, become