"Rhetorical Strategies"

 

The Thesis in this article would be “The path to the creative society of the future goes straight through the classroom. But not the memorize-and-regurgitate classrooms we have today -- instead, classrooms that give students a deeper understanding of the material; classrooms that prepare students to go beyond existing knowledge; classrooms that prepare students to transfer knowledge to new situations.”

I think the organization of this article is very topical, it states all the main arguments that lead up to the main information about creativity in schools.  He first talks about the percentage and what’s going on today in school, and then he talks about some of the problems in schools. The future with creativity in schools, and then some other points or issues of what is means having creativity in schools for students.

This article was proven with some facts but I think most of this article had to deal with feelings and personal opinions on creativity in school from an individual person.  There was a lot more observation and feelings in the article about the creativity for schools now and in the future further ahead. The author gave plenty of reason to certain things, and had followed up with many examples right after he made a statement. “All of the research shows us that there's no creativity without sustained hard work, skill, and expertise. That's why we can only reach a creative society with the active contributions of schools -- the schools of the future, redesigned based on the latest psychological understandings of creativity and learning.”

There was no smile that I picked up on in the article. I think the author brought very many allusions to the article from giving people and idea of what schools could be and can be with the help of perusing creativity for students in schools. There was not much Metaphor or Parallelism in this article. There was a lot of repetition. The author repeated himself many times so the reader really got the point of the article.  I think this was a great example from the article that is repetition and rhetorical: “So where will children learn disciplinary expertise? Where will they learn how to focus on a problem and work hard on it? Where will they learn not to get discouraged when they reach a dead end? Where will they learn the deep understanding, the connected knowledge, which underlies all successful creativity? In school, that's where -- the schools of the future, schools that are redesigned based on the latest science of learning.”

The author really had a strong argument by stating examples, and showing some research that needs to be done about the creativity in schools. I think there could have been more Allusions in this article to really get the reader to see the whole idea of what’s going on with schools that support creativity now and for future references. Great examples were given in this article after statements to give a bright idea about teaching knowledge in a way that supports creativity to the students in schools.