Exemplary Student Work: Dan Minion’s ‘Bridging the Past and the Present: Enthymematic Arguments in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and the Rhetoric of the Bathroom Debate’

Check out this exemplary work from PPW major Dan Minion for WRIT 280, “Foundations of Argument.” Read the introduction to Minion’s work below or read the full paper here.

“As our course in Rhetoric started out examining the voices of the Greek Classicals, it is in my opinion that there was no stronger voice than that of Aristotle. His rhetorical concepts, originating over 2,000 years ago, are still incredibly influential and pervasive in the modern world. For example, Aristotle is the architect behind the rhetorical scheme of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos, a concept so fundamental to rhetoric that I have heard it sermonized in a wide range of my college courses from public speaking to technical writing. Perhaps the most meaningful contribution to my understanding of rhetoric is Aristotle’s explanation behind the power of the enthymeme. In his work Rhetoric, Aristotle discusses the nature behind the power of rhetoric while giving us many banger quotes like “For the true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty”.”