TOWARD A LIMITED THEORY OF IMAGINATIVE READING OF ACADEMIC WRITING.

This article relates an author's personal views on the art of writing. The author emphasizes that aside from learning the hallmarks of academic style, writers have problems in modesty, impressionism, support, and criticism. Aristotle's concept of logos as a means of rhetorical proof, which has long been one of the most misunderstood aspects of rhetorical theory, is also discussed. The author briefly explains why the equation of logos with logic is untenable in light of Aristotle's conceptions of the nature of man and the nature of rhetoric.