http://courses.johnmjones.org/ENGL605/2012/09/09/3-from-personality-types-to-visual-rhetoric/ ENGL 605, WVU, Fall 2012 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:44:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://courses.johnmjones.org/ENGL605/2012/09/09/3-from-personality-types-to-visual-rhetoric/#comment-162 cseymour Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:34:43 +0000 http://courses.johnmjones.org/ENGL605/?p=359#comment-162 Hi Eric, I agree. I think ethical theories definitely have a place in the technical writing classroom. From your response, it seems as though the respect and aware of ethics must work both ways. Not only, maybe, could better audience awareness have benefited me (at a basic level, I would have been prepared to assert myself even if feeling dismissed), but it could have also benefited those listeners who were gender biased without realizing it. I know, at times, that in professional groups it's easier to small-talk with females, and I'm sure men are more comfortable small-talking with other men. Each of us needs to consider the repercussions of such potentially exclusionary behavior. Hi Eric, I agree. I think ethical theories definitely have a place in the technical writing classroom. From your response, it seems as though the respect and aware of ethics must work both ways. Not only, maybe, could better audience awareness have benefited me (at a basic level, I would have been prepared to assert myself even if feeling dismissed), but it could have also benefited those listeners who were gender biased without realizing it. I know, at times, that in professional groups it’s easier to small-talk with females, and I’m sure men are more comfortable small-talking with other men. Each of us needs to consider the repercussions of such potentially exclusionary behavior.

]]> http://courses.johnmjones.org/ENGL605/2012/09/09/3-from-personality-types-to-visual-rhetoric/#comment-128 ewardell Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:32:11 +0000 http://courses.johnmjones.org/ENGL605/?p=359#comment-128 Christina, I really like your example but I'm also troubled by it since it's annoying to think crowds would be so obviously willing to enforce gender stereotypes by assuming all power rested within your male co-presenter. I think, although this wouldn't necessarily shape the reactions of the audience, this is a little of what I was trying to get at by advocating for actually teaching ethical theorists to technical writing classrooms. My idea, I think, is that by addressing the actual theories (like differance or Utilitarianism) that our students will go on to address audiences in a way that is best suited to the actual audience members, which helps enforce certain ethical ideals. Taking Mill and Utilitarianism for example, I think writers might benefit from considering the Greatest Happiness Principle when writing a document the same way people of that audience would have benefited you by considering your agency and right to voice your own answers as a presenter. Christina, I really like your example but I’m also troubled by it since it’s annoying to think crowds would be so obviously willing to enforce gender stereotypes by assuming all power rested within your male co-presenter. I think, although this wouldn’t necessarily shape the reactions of the audience, this is a little of what I was trying to get at by advocating for actually teaching ethical theorists to technical writing classrooms. My idea, I think, is that by addressing the actual theories (like differance or Utilitarianism) that our students will go on to address audiences in a way that is best suited to the actual audience members, which helps enforce certain ethical ideals. Taking Mill and Utilitarianism for example, I think writers might benefit from considering the Greatest Happiness Principle when writing a document the same way people of that audience would have benefited you by considering your agency and right to voice your own answers as a presenter.

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