Sentence examples for rhetorical proposal from inspiring English sources

He pre-empted a rhetorical proposal made centuries later by John Maynard Keynes: since pointless work was better than none, the unemployed could be paid to build a pyramid on Salisbury Plains, or transport Stonehenge to London.

The letter concluded by warning that "realistic proposals to reduce drug-related crime, disease and death are abandoned in favor of rhetorical proposals to create drug-free societies".

His stump speech bears no resemblance to that of any other candidate: there is no structure and no rhetorical flourish, no policy proposal and few complete sentences.

This strategy once again puts the proposed research in proper perspective in terms of justification, thus likely increasing the persuasive and rhetorical force of the proposal.

It is also supported more globally by [1] and [2], which like [3.2] are satellites giving positive information about Korean Air. Figure 17 Contextual, semantic and lexicogrammatical analysis of a reporting text (Text 4). Figure 18 Logico-semantic analysis of an advertisement as a rhetorical complex with nuclear proposal.

Their study is concerned with the identification and description of rhetorical moves of grant proposals written by 34 established scientists from the European Union (EU).

It uses the empirical data to draw attention to how the potential of design proposals as rhetorical instruments to serve both designers 'own thinking and the presentation of their designs to others is a prominent theme in the professional designer tutor's engagement.

A State Department spokeswoman had it right when she initially described Kerry's proposal as purely "rhetorical," because "this brutal dictator with a history of playing fast and loose with the facts cannot be trusted to turn over chemical weapons".

Figure 19 Logico-semantic analysis of a product review as a rhetorical complex with nuclear evaluative proposal (from the Apple store website; the product and the review are no longer available).

The objective of the study is to describe the rhetorical structure of the research proposals, how it relates to the communicative purposes and the expectations of the institutional context, and how the above facets may vary along disciplinary lines.

This exploratory study investigated the rhetorical structure of three research proposals written by students who successfully sought entry into MA/PhD programs in applied linguistics at a Singapore university.