Micah Cratty - Stanford University



Micah Cratty

Original Spin-Amerigo Vespucci

Differences between print and oratory-macro (structure) and micro (diction, tone)

Longer intro-clonked-wedding ring, personal intro

“Colombia”

Salesmanship-tabloid

Less formal in audio

-“Blonde on the clam shell”

Steward vs. “entry level”

Scout in Spain-Isabella- Jews and Arabs thrown out

Rearrangement-Lack of focus on journalists-lurid passages draw us in-then journalists

Lack of spatial clues in oratory

-in oratory, every time there is a new source you have to set up voice prior to sounding it

“I believe”-modified strategies

Seattle vs. Puget Sound

Sex potion

Columbus-fig trees-passage-harbors and friendly natives

“Remember Martin Waldseemuller”

Americus vs. Amerigo

Samuel Elliot Morrison-liar

Bally-hoo-PR-fitting-prophecy

Don’t want more than two-three sentences when integrating a source or material

In print we set up things before we get to out main material, we contextualize

Difference between conveying meaning in poetry and prose is compression, oratory is between these two.

Rhetorical

Logos-persuasion through inference, if-then, primary in text, subordinated in audio

Ethos-persuasion through authority of speaker

Pathos-persuasion how it makes you feel

Dramatization

Comparison of Columbus and Amerigo-dramatization and understatement

Quotes authorities-Emerson and Thoreau

Situates his argument, differs from authorities on subject

Demonstrate that what he is giving us is different from what others have given.(Important for us to do

Identify with narrator

Opening scene

Diction-colloquial

Homework-sources

Direct address-epitrope-turning over issue to the audience

False intimacy

Discovery

Intimacy and authentic objectivity=audience will follow

Previews essay in first two minutes(we need to signpost and hint

Music-genre jokes, in transitions

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