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Turn In |
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M 8/23 |
First Class, What is Rhetoric? |
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Pick up: Course Pack at Rapid Print: basement of Old Union. Read: Crowely/Hawhee, pages 7-13, 16-33 & Herrick (CP), pages 1-10 Read: Course Description, Assignment Descriptions, anything else here that strikes your fancy. |
W 8/25 |
What is Rhetoric: Introduction to types of Rhetoric and the Canons, Designing your Rhetoric Blog |
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Read: Bizzell/Herzberg(CP) 11-19 Blog |
M 8/30 |
What is rhetoric (continued)? Description of Short Paper #1 web discussion topic (time permitting) Joining the Discussion/ Beginning your Blog |
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Read: Crowley, pages 163-199 Read: Herrick (CP) 20-28 Begin Thinking About: Short Paper #1 on Ethos |
W 9/1 |
Getting "meta" with political rhetoric"Meta"(philosophy) a prefix meaning a level of description higher. Ethos President
Bush Speaks Historical Interlude: Why did Plato hate the Sophists? Why might we love
them? |
Robinson/Groves (CP) 36-39 Sam the Dog (CP) 40 |
Read: 2-3 political Blogs from either the left or the right. Follow the links they offer to the stories they're reporting and read those links. Read: Bizzell/Herzberg (CP) 29-35 Write: a description of your Blog. What will it offer readers? What will it do that others won't? What's your angle? What's your beef? What ethos do you wish to invent and how will you do that through your blog? Read: Documentary Film Maker Michael Moore's web page Blog |
M 9/6 |
Labor DayNo Class |
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W 9/8 |
Ethos (continued) Watch: Convention Keynote Speakers |
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Read: Bizzell/Herzberg (CP)41-46 Blog |
M 9/13 |
Watch: Michael Moore |
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Write: Describe Michael Moore's ethos in this movie. Is it situated or invented? Is it effective & why? Is it ineffective & why? |
W 9/15 |
Ethos |
Turn in writing assignment |
Read: Quintillian (CP), 59-73 Read: Read Crowley, pages 205-218 Blog |
M 9/20 |
Pathos Pathos & emotional
appeals & Fundraising Letters & Martin Luther King's "I
Have a Dream" Speech Grading Standards for Short Papers
Look over Final Project Description (under construction) |
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Read: Bush's address to the Urban League Read: Kerry's address to the Urban League Write (informally): How does each man construct his ethos in these speeches to the same audience? Describe each speaker's ethos, or desired ethos with this audience? Relate your analysis to Quintilian's description of the rhetor. Is this description applicable today? Why or why not? Begin Thinking About: Short Paper #2 |
W 9/22 |
Pathos Discuss Short Paper #1 and informal writing assignment add classmates' blogs to your blog's links Pathosin class work |
Turn in Short Paper #1 |
Blog |
M 9/27 |
Pathos 15 minutes to design your pathos presentation presentations & explanations Getting back to pathos in MLK |
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Read: Crowley, pages 220-233 Read: Information on Debate |
W 9/29 |
Logos extrinsic proofs Preparing to watch the debates |
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Watch (or tape and watch): Find: a newspaper, blog, Internet page, television, radio (one) analysis of the debate. Bring in to class to discuss and write about. Consider: the following questions as you watch the first debate: what ethos was Kerry employing here? What ethos was Bush employing? What pathetic appeals did you recognize immediately and what effect might they have had? Who are the media saying "won" the debate and what evidence do they give for this? Did you learn anything about the candidates or their platforms? Begin: Short Paper #3 Can we really call it a debate? Top Ten Things They Don't Want You to Know The Commission on Presidential Debates Thanks to Joe for finding the 32-page "memorandum of understanding" that contains all of the rules for the debates Your Debate Strategiesopening statements Blog |
M 10/4 |
Logos
In-class group work...share & discuss the text you brought in with the class.
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Turn in Short Paper #2 for Peer Review |
Watch (or tape and watch): Reminder: You should have at least 4 blog entries posted by today. Obviously today's entry counts towards that number. Your blog accounts for 20% of your course grade, and I am checking them weekly, so you must post every week. |
W 10/6 |
Logos Individual work: review the logos/fallacies cribsheet. Read the first 2 exchanges between the candidates and make copious notes on the transcript about how they argue each point. Don't worry if you don't catch everything this time around. Group Work: look over the crib sheet and review your debate notes. Copy and paste the exchanges we from the transcript into word and use the editinsert comment feature to illustrate points where the candidate uses a particular strategy and where he employs a logical fallacy. Save these and send them to me. Be certain to put the names of your group mates on them. We will discuss these in class. |
Turn in Short Paper #2 with Peer Reviewed Draft |
Watch (or tape and watch): Find: a newspaper, blog, Internet page, television, radio (one)
analysis of the debate. Bring in to class to discuss and write about.
Read: Crowley, pages 36-51 Begin: Short Paper #4 Blog |
M10/11 |
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W10/13 |
Kairos |
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Watch (or tape and watch): Read: Herrick (CP) 74-78 Begin: Short Paper #4 Blog |
M10/18 |
Commonplaces & kairos Review Kairos activity from last week |
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Read: Crowley 95-130 Be prepared to discuss: |
W10/20 |
KairosThe urgency of here, the urgency of now! Let's see what's happening here, now. Visual rhetoric/performanceClass visit to the Tunnel Evaluation recap/regroupdiscussion |
Turn in Short Paper #3 |
Blog & then take a well-earned break |
M10/25 |
Commonplaces Tunnel recap Evaluation recapLori's response to last week's class evaluation Final Project Discussion |
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Homework break #2 |
W10/27 |
Visual rhetoric continuedvisit ISU gallery for tour of The Election Show Meet at the gallery for tour! |
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Read: Crowley 278-313 |
M 11/1 |
Style |
Turn in Short Paper #4 |
Read:Yellin (CP) 89-91, Gremké (CP) 92-98, N.A.(CP) 99-100, Truth (CP) 101 |
W 11/3 |
Style Journalistic vs Academic Styles MLA/APA Style Comparison |
Sign up for conference |
Blog Write/compile/sketch/outline: final project for a peer conference on Monday. |
M 11/8 |
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W11/10 |
Conferences |
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Blog |
M11/15 |
Conferences |
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W11/17 |
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Blogall blogs completed by 11/19. Blogs completed after this time will not count. Have a revised or sketched out "draft" of your final project for peer review when we get back. Have your drafted argument for the debate ready for your group to look over and discuss. |
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M11/22 |
ThanksgivingNo Class |
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W11/24 |
ThanksgivingNo Class |
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M11/29 |
Peer Review #2 & debate prep |
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Read: Logos Link and visit the link posted to this site (bottom of page) on Figures of Reasoning Read: Rhetorical Performance Project Standards Read: Updated Rhetorical Analysis Project Standards (note addition of analytical coverletter standards) |
W12/1 |
Logos Revisited |
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M 12/6 |
Debates |
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To Do: Get your final project as near completion as possible. You may either bring it in to discuss with (or show to) the class or bring in enough information about it that you can explain it to us. |
W 12/8 |
Last Day of Class |
wrap up & final project discussion |
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M12/13 |
Turn in final project 414A during our scheduled exam time: Monday, December 13 anytime between Note: I will not accept final projects after this time. |
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are licensed by Lori Ostergaard under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
