Download Samples of Writing Within Different Disciplines for Rhetorical

Samples of Writing Within Different Disciplines
An art criticism article:
Everything in this picture argues against something else, but everything
else in the picture also repeats and confirms something else. The
disturbing, unsettling impact is first created by two devices, and close
examination reveals multitudes of other devices that serve to maintain and
enhance the original impact. One of the major “contradictions” is the
color. Bartholome has painted this portrait with two sets of nearly
complementary colors—dark orange and green for the larger color masses, and
less intense blue and yellow for the two smaller areas. These two pairs of
opposites, plus white, comprise the total palette of the picture. The wild
freedom of the brushstroke used throughout most of the picture, a quality
that cannot be dismissed as merely a function of this painting’s possibly
“unfinished” state since this same brushwork appears throughout Bartholome’s
work in technically “finished” paintings.
Excerpt from a Supreme Court opinion (Gideon v. Wainwright):
…The Court in Betts v. Brady made an abrupt break with its own wellconstituted precedents. In returning to these old precedents, sounder we
believe than the new, we but restore constitutional principles established
to achieve a fair system of justice. Not only these precedents but also
reason and reflection require us to recognize that in our adversary system
of criminal justice, any person haled into court, who is too poor to hire a
lawyer, cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him.
Part of the background for a microbiology lab result summary:
Lyme disease most often presents with a characteristic "bull's-eye" rash,
erythema migrans, accompanied by nonspecific symptoms such as fever,
malaise, fatigue, headache, myalgia, and joint aches arthlagia. The
incubation period from infection to onset of erythema migrans is typically 7
to 14 days, but may be as short as 3 days and as long as 30 days. Some
infected individuals are asymptomatic and infection can only be determined
by serological testing.
Excerpt from a description of one of the groups in MIT’s artificial
intelligence lab
Design Rationale Group works on tools that would allow designers to be able
to sketch, gesture, and talk with the computer about their work in the same
way they would with another designer. The goal is a design environment with
intelligence embedded in the environment, allowing designers to work in
familiar ways in familiar media (e.g., whiteboards), yet give those media
new and powerful capabilities (e.g., the ability to understand a sketch, ask
intelligent questions about a design, etc.).