After class I found myself expanding upon my idea of how ancient rhetoric influenced renaissance rhetoric in the advent of print. Before I mentioned renaissance rhetoricians trying to incorporate ways of ancient rhetoricians while coming up with an independent style and after class I better understood that this could because before print they basically could not have an independent style. After committing so long to literally copying and reproducing other's works it would be hard not to be thoroughly influenced by them, but with the coming of print during the renaissance they did not have to copy works for themselves and thus had more free-reign to think for themselves.
For my response to classmate I ended up reading a blogpost on a blog entitled "First Time Blog/Kairos." I thought it was pretty interesting. I liked how she connected the ideas to herself and things in her life rather than simply summarizing.
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