Paying it Forward Through Rhetorical Velocity

Rhetorical velocity (Ridolfo & DeVoss 2009) for the sake of generating plagiarizer-friendly texts that can be recomposed for additional purposes perhaps outside the intentions of the original rhetor or rhetors is a nifty pedagogical strategy for teaching students about the vulnerability of their texts, interconnectedness of their rhetorical subjectivities, and the impact of the dromosphere…

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A graph showing the mention of the term hermeneutics in texts over time.

The Journey of Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics refers to the study of interpretation. The word’s journey started with an Anatolian origin as a technical expression through Greek hermēneuō (to interpret) to hermeneutes (interpreter) to hermeneutikos (of or for interpreting). Another etymology of the term was established by Martin Heidegger that traces its origin to Greek hermeneuein (v.), which is related to…

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