Ability
Dublin Core
Title
Description
In this artifact, the unknown author summarizes a specific paragraph in the margin so they can better understand it. The textbook is The Rhetorical Tradition by Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.
Creator
Unknown
Source
Lindsay Destine
Publisher
Lindsay Destine
Date
Language
English
Identifier
Coverage
2000-2024
Notebook, Marginalia and Annotation Item Type Metadata
Genre
annotation
Material
unlined paper, typewriter ink, pen ink
Circulation
Person to Person (Analogue)
Linguistic Text
ability comes naturally
From experience
From formal training
From experience
From formal training
Given Text
However, if it is my duty not only to rebuke others, but also to set forth my own views, I think all intelligent people will agree with me that while many of those who have pursued philosophy have remained in private life, others, on the other hand, who have never taken lessons from any one of the sophists have become able orators and the statesmen. For ability, whether in speech or in any other activity, is found in those who are well endowed by nature and have been schooled by practical experience. Formal training make such men more skillful and more resourceful in discovering the possibilities of a subject; for it teachers them to take from a readier source the topics which they otherwise hit upon
Genres Included in the Artifact
annotation, list, note
Uploaded
Lindsay Destine 04/07/21
Citation
Unknown, “Ability,” Museum of Everyday Writing, accessed April 27, 2024, https://museumofeverydaywriting.omeka.net/items/show/1955.