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t-8.30.05
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t-9.6.05
Introduction & Ethos–Aristotle
[activity]
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- Buy
textbook
- Read
over the syllabus
and Short Paper
thoroughly; in the body of an email to
the instructor
(sent by 8am today) address:
- how
has what you read compared to your expectations for this course
- what
was confusing about the syllabus
- what
was fair or unfair about the syllabus? Why?
- any
other comments
- Read
Aristotle's On Rhetoric– Book I. Chapters 1-3, Definitions
and Types of Rhetoric (pp. 24-51) and Book II. Chapters 12-17,
Character of a Speaker (pp. 163-172)
- exercise
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t-9.13.05
Pathos–Aristotle
and Barthes (the death of the author) [activity]
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t-9.20.05
Ethos
and Pathos–Lebert (digital rhetoric)
[activity]
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- Read
Lebert's "Wiring Human Rights Activism"
(pp. 209-231) [BB]
{example}
- Submit
SP1 to the
instructor
as an email attachment as XXX-SP1.doc by Friday (9/23) at 6pm
- exercise
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t-9.27.05
Delivery–Aristotle
and St. Augustine (elocution) [activity]
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- Read
Aristotle's On Rhetoric– Book III. Chapter 1, Arrangement
(pp. 216-220)
- Read
from St. Augustine's On Christian Doctorine–
Book 4 (pp. 117-146) [BB]
{theory}
- no
exercise
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t-10.4.05
Style–
Aristotle, Wysocki (visual rhetoric) , and Williams (document
design) [activity]
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- Read
Aristotle's On Rhetoric– Book III. Chapter 1, Arrangement
(pp. 220-257)
- Read
Wysocki's "With Eyes that Think, and Compose,
and Think: On Visual Rhetoric," (pp. 182-201) [BB]
{theory}
- Read
William's Non-Designer's
Design Book (go through all six
links by clicking on the "NEXT" link at the bottom of
each node). Think about how these principles apply to the document
you will produce.
- exercise
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| 7 |
t-10.11.05
Fall
Break–No class
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t-10.18.05
Style–Blair
[activity]
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- Read
Selections from Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric
and Belle Lettres (I,II,X,IV,XIX)
[BB]
{theory}
- exercise
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t-10.25.05
Arrangement–Aristotle,
Kaplan (contrastive rhetoric), and World Englishes [activity]
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- Read
Aristotle's On Rhetoric– Book III. Chapters 13-19,
Arrangement (pp. 257-282)
- Read
Kaplan's "Cultural Thought Patterns in Inter-cultural
Education" (pp.) [BB]
{theory}
- Read
Student Writing
Sample
- Read
Week's "Embracing
English"
- exercise
- Submit
SP2 to the
instructor
as an email attachment as XXX-SP2.doc by Friday (10/28) at 6pm
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t-11.1.05
Logos–Aristotle
[activity]
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- Read
Aristotle's On Rhetoric– Book II.
Chapters 18-26, Logical Arguments (pp. 172-214) {theory}
- no
exercise
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t-11.8.05
Dialectic–Plato[activity]
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- Read
Plato's The Phaedrus (pp. 1-39)
[BB]
{theory}
- exercise
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t-11.15.05
Terministic
Screen–Kenneth Burke
[activity]
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- Read
Burke's "Terministic Screens" (pp.
44-62) [BB]
{theory}
- exercise
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t-11.22.05
Workshop
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- Submit
SP3 to the
instructor
as an email attachment as XXX-SP3.doc by Friday (11/25) at 6pm
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t-11.29.05
Rhetoric,
Science & Identity–Richardson, Lemonick, and Fausto-Sterling
[activity]
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- Read
Richardson's "From the Heart" (pp.
155-169) [BB]
{theory}
- Read
Lemonick's "Meet the New Planets" [BB]
- Read Fausto-Sterling's "Dueling Duelisms" (the first six pages of the Amazon.com excerpt)
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t-12.6.04
Workshop:
Peer Review [activity]
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- Email
a complete rough draft of your paper to your assigned peer.
- Use
the peer review instructions to compose a response to your peer;
cc the instructor. Submit the review in the body
of an email by 10pm.
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f-12.9.04
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| Finals |
t-12.13.04
- Final
Exam: instructor will available in classroom to address questions
or concerns
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