Here are five rhetorical moves I see Bogost using in \u201cThe Problem With Diversity in Computing\u201d and a few comments about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1) Bogost opens his article using an anecdotal story about Amy Webb\u2019s experience at a TSA checkpoint. This helps us visualize an example of human and technology interaction and also creates empathy in his readers, because Webb\u2019s experience is not pleasant, and most of us can relate to it. Bogost uses this example to introduce his main point (diversity is much needed in the tech industry but it\u2019s not an easy problem to solve). This works for me, although I would have liked to have the TSA experience of men described to highlight the difference in treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2) In the 5th paragraph, Bogost uses a direct quote from Webb to emphasize and support his main point. Because Webb is a professor who has written about human-technology interaction, he draws on her view as an expert to support his argument. Webb says: \u201csomeone like me wasn\u2019t in the room.\u201d This works as supporting evidence for me, but since Bogost leads into her quote using the words \u201cthe fact that\u201d I\u2019d like to see some facts or statistics too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Several times, Bogost uses a strategy of stating a commonly held belief or quotation (they say), followed a bit later by a transition phrase that signals that he is not necessarily in complete agreement (I say). I liked these moves because they allowed him to discuss the diversity issue from various sides and helped support his overall point that there is no easy solution. Here are 3 examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3) In paragraph 5, he writes: \u201cThat idea echoes a popular suggestion to remedy computers\u2019 ignorance\u2026increase the diversity\u201d Then he starts paragraph six with: \u201cBut that\u2019s an aspirational hope.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4) In paragraph 7, he writes: \u201cFixing the flow of talent into this system, the thinking goes, will produce the workforce that Webb and others are calling for.\u201d At the beginning of paragraph 9, he acknowledges this idea but returns to his point when he writes: \u201cThose efforts have merit. But their impact might be a drop in the bucket\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5) In paragraph 12, Bogost quotes Charles Isbell, a dean of computing, who says: \u201cDiversity is just membership\u2026. Integration is influence, power, and partnership.\u201d Bogost immediately follows this expert opinion with yet another statement that returns to his point about the complexity of the problem: \u201cBut integration is much harder than diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overall, Bogost\u2019s rhetorical moves allow him to explore the diversity issue from many angles and help him make his point that we know what the problem is, but fixing it is a lot harder than it looks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here are five rhetorical moves I see Bogost using in \u201cThe Problem With Diversity in Computing\u201d and a few comments about them. 1) Bogost opens his article using an anecdotal story about Amy Webb\u2019s experience at a TSA checkpoint. This helps us visualize an example of human and technology interaction and also creates empathy in … Continue reading “Bogost\u2019s Rhetorical Moves”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[60,24,58,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}