Cultural Studies 100 : Sarah's 1PM tutorial

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Logorrhoea Article

After reading the Wikipedia 'Logorrhoea' article, I was interested to find out that there is actually a "technical" term for what teachers usually refer to as "verbal diarrhea". The part of the article that I could connect with or understand the most was the section on logorrhea as a description of rhetoric. Sometimes when I go to read a scholary article or book, at first glance I always feel like it's been written in some other language or that it makes absolutely no sense and it takes me a while to read and re-read particular sentences just to get a general sense of what the author is talking about, just like the article discusses. Logorrhea in this sense also used to come up for me when I was writing papers for school because I would always try to use big or complicated words to sort of "pad" my writing to make myself look like I understood what I was discussing and I had to learn to start simplifying my writing so that it was more "concise" and I could get my point across instead of my arguments always getting mixed up in a bunch of unnecessary words.

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