Things I've written in my prelims essays:

- On how abstraction facilitates comparisons between systems of discourse: "It allows the comparing of apples to apples, without the confusion of having to account for whether they came from pie or sauce."
- On Anne Wysocki's reference to a major literacy studies scholar: "The shout-out to that legacy is particularly loud in her essay."
- Working title of my third section: "Modern Playout: The (Rhetorical) Voyage Home
- On examples of pure persuasion-based rhetorical acts: "Hipster culture is another example, based in persuading outsiders of the superiority of their fashions and tastes and disdaining those fashions and practices at which that persuasion becomes too successful." (Footnote to this sentence: "Q: How did the hipster burn his tongue? A: He drank his coffee before it was cool.")

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