Mamet and Butler
Summarize each argument:
What Mamet draws our attention to is the problem of the background context from which we always and already project our range of possible understandings onto a particular rhetorical artifact. A background context gives us a way to create coherence and cohesion (see Williams' book Style for a demonstration of these two important registers).
For instance, read this paragraph, and notice how the lack of cohesion between sentences impacts the overall coherence of the passage--the way we put it all together into a single meaning:
Intersecting quite powerfully with Mamet, Butler provides several excellent examples of how to evaluate writing that values writing in-scene over writing exposition.
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