Summarizing
Purpose: In Bootstraps, Villanueva is interested in knowing
more about the various obstacles one may face as a minority of any sort. In his
case, he was a Community student entering a university with not the greatest
GPA. And to top it off, he was Puerto Rican. Villanueva emphasizes greatly how
he felt severely pressured to meet his goal of graduating as a linguistics
teacher. Through emphasizing this, he's showing the reader about the difficulty
that one may experience when one desires something greatly. He also emphasizes
the importance of rhetoric to his audience by using great philosophers and
political leaders.
Method: Villanueva's
study may be rhetoric and how he tried to become a better writer through accepting upsetting comments. Villanueva reveals to his audience his role models in
rhetoric. He conducts
observations about how these great figures in history used rhetoric in very
essential manners. Villanueva proposes that rhetoric is an important aspect
in daily life and regular human language; he presumes that rhetoric has impacts
on people, even for different popular topics and differences in cultures and
beliefs. Villanueva articulates specifically in political matters that
rhetoric was used by great philosophers to induce powerful messages to the people
being spoken to.
Results: The concluding thoughts in this section of the book leads
to the idea that Villanueva believes language and the study of writing effectively is a vital in life
because what we learn can be passed onto new generations for expanding
knowledge. Villanueva does not yield to thread his thought of racial and
economic differences with language. The concluding thoughts allude to the idea
that Villanueva believes language may be inherited in some sense to keep
culture, background, and influences in language.
Evaluating
The message that I perceived from this reading was about culture
and economic status and how it affects writing styles with rhetoric. I agree
with Villanueva’s views on how important rhetorical language is along with background.
Although we shouldn’t, we mostly write in a very biased way because of what we’ve
experienced, which ultimately impacts certain readers. I also agree that rhetoric
is very important in persuasive writing, and hopefully I’ll be able to use
rhetoric effectively in my writing to expand my ideas better. The author’s
ideas are related to what we’re doing in class because of how he expresses his
writing process of length in days and how we researched rhetoric for making a
paper better.
Bibliography
Bibliography
Villanueva, V. (1993). From Bootstraps: From an American
academic of color. New York, NY:
National Council of Teachers of English. 86-105
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Story inspired by the life of Victor Villanueva Jr. - Among his books is the award-winning Bootstraps, From an American Academic of Color, Rhetorics of the Americas.
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Hello,
ReplyDeleteI would like to share a book about Victor V.
Story inspired by the life of Victor Villanueva Jr. - Among his books is the award-winning Bootstraps, From an American Academic of Color, Rhetorics of the Americas.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CG7F9DN/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_NGXbFbY043EBZ