A Really Short Synopsis of a Small Number of Our Readings

"Rhetoric and Ideology" helps to put different rhetorical approaches into the perspective of epistemic rhetoric, and it made me think about how our readings so far have spoken to one another. This is my super-short, simplistic version of what we've read up to now (and please feel free to fill it in with anything else, my beloved classmates):

LeFevre: Establishes rhetoric as potentially social.
Scott: Establishes rhetoric as epistemic, because of its power to create meaning.
Berlin, "Rhetoric and Ideology": Distinguishes social-epistemic rhetoric from other types,
arguing that this rhetoric's acknowledgment of its epistemic nature makes it more authentic.
Since Scott demonstrates that all rhetoric is epistemic, social-epistemic rhetoric is the most
honest.
Berlin, Rhetoric, Poetics . . . (pardon the title being bolded; the blog doesn't let us underline):
With rhetoric established as epistemic, the past views of writing can be seen as Romantic
and made to serve the interests of the privileged class. We need to reconceive English
studies as a sphere where the epistemic power of language is really acknowledged.