1971
DOI: 10.2307/356450
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The Theory and Practice of Imitation in Classical Rhetoric

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“…Provides models to emulate. When teachers provide students with concrete examples of what successful work looks like, students are likely to perform better (Corbett, 1971), though the effects are relatively small (Graham et al, 2015;Graham & Perin, 2007a;Hillocks, 1984). Provides frequent opportunities for practice.…”
Section: Best Practices Consistent With On-demand Writingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Provides models to emulate. When teachers provide students with concrete examples of what successful work looks like, students are likely to perform better (Corbett, 1971), though the effects are relatively small (Graham et al, 2015;Graham & Perin, 2007a;Hillocks, 1984). Provides frequent opportunities for practice.…”
Section: Best Practices Consistent With On-demand Writingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Consequently no emphasis on a coherent pedagogy was enacted in this method. If this approach had a theoretical foundation, it was in the classical concept of 'imitation' (Corbett, 1971). Writers became good writers through reading and imitating what they read.…”
Section: 'Write Like That': the Exemplar Approach To Writing Instructionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…On the other hand, there is the recognition that there is no such thing as wholly original invention, because creative expression often involves modeling, emulating, or learning from work that has come before. In the rhetorical tradition, imitation is recognized as a generative, inventional resource that allows an individual to “take experience apart and put it together in new ways” (Corbett , 250). As the “rhetorical notion of copying, aping, simulating, and emulating models,” Corbett says, imitation was valued because it was not framed as distinct from invention but rather integral to it (, 243).…”
Section: Tension Of Imitationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the rhetorical tradition, imitation is recognized as a generative, inventional resource that allows an individual to “take experience apart and put it together in new ways” (Corbett , 250). As the “rhetorical notion of copying, aping, simulating, and emulating models,” Corbett says, imitation was valued because it was not framed as distinct from invention but rather integral to it (, 243). Thus arose the belief “that an artist becomes great by imitating great artists” (Sullivan , 7‐8).…”
Section: Tension Of Imitationmentioning
confidence: 99%