Schedule for Essay 1 (weeks 1 - 5)
Week 1
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Wed, Jan 22
Compare the strategies Luntz and Lakoff explain in these documents. Who are their audiences? What is the central controlling value expressed in their words? What value or values might we infer are there, but left unsaid?
Group assignments.
Access Google Drive. Create a new document.
Begin writing the Inventory of Concerns. Complete and share with assigned group and me by Sunday evening, Jan 26th.
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Week 2
Mon, Jan 27
Come to class having read the syllabus and having become acquainted with the rest of the website.
Also come to class having read your group members' drafts of their inventory of concerns.
Except when noted otherwise, when electronic readings are listed for a given day (in bold script), that means to show up at class having printed, read, and notated them. Be ready to discuss and write about these readings in class. If the reading is from a required book from the course, I expect you to bring the appropriate books.
Also come to class having read "Lesson 1" from the book Style by Joseph Williams. We will be looking at your Inventory of Concerns from the point of view of this lesson.
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Wed, Jan 29
Again, when readings are listed for a given day, that means to show up at class having read them.
Read summary and "Chapter 2" from They Say/ I Say about the art of summary.
Come to class having printed, read and notated McKee's "Structure and Meaning."
In class writing exercise: attempt to identify the values at play in McKee's argument. In your summary, answer these questions using details from the text:
Additionally, I highly recommend that you read this about controlling value. Here you will find further explanation of controlling values and examples. You may also read this blog that summarizes these notes to get another simplified angle. You need not print these.
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Week 3
Mon, Feb 3
Read "Chapter 3" from They Say/ I Say.
Come to class having printed, read, and notated Jane Gallop's "The Ethics of Reading: Close Encounters." In class: attempt to identify the values at play in Gallop's argument. In your summary, answer these questions using details from the text:
In class group writing exercise: Pretend that you have witnessed a conversation between Gallop and McKee. Use the templates for including quotes to share with your audience what each author said to the other. You will also need to paraphrase and even create what they might have said, given what you know about each author from their writing.
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Wed, Feb 5
Read from William Covino's Elements of Persuasion, Chapter 1, "Grammars of Persuasion": pages 1-12.
In class we will rhetorically analyze this video: Read about Toulminian argument from this Wikipedia entry(the section called "Argumentation"). Look at how the video makes claims, what evidence it uses to back up these claims, and why the evidence used makes sense.
Here's a good example of how warrants work with evidence and claims. |
Week 4
Mon, Feb 10
Use Wikipedia, do basic web research on nanotechnology, robotics, and genetics before reading the article for today's class. Also prior to reading Joy's essay, watch this trailer for the 1980 documentary The Day After Trinity by Jon Else:
Print, read, and notate Joy's "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us." Summarize the argument and work to distinguish what rhetorical strategies the writer uses (also use Covino to guide you in writing this).
Compose this as a Google Document and be ready to share this in class to work on together in groups. |
Wed, Feb 12
Select a text to rhetorically analyze for draft one of the unit 1 assignment. You will begin writing the draft in class.
Here is the assignment sheet for essay 1. |
Week 5
Mon, Feb 17
Read Williams' "Lesson 3." Use the principles he outlines in this lesson to assist you in workshopping each other's drafts.
Workshop draft one of rhetorical analysis of your chosen text, which you must share with your group and me by 6pm the day prior to class. You will need to come to class having read and commented on your groupmates' work. |
Wed, Feb 19
Read Williams' "Lesson 4." Use the principles he outlines in this lesson to assist you in workshopping each other's drafts.
Continue workshopping your REVISED draft, which you must share with your group and me by 6pm the day prior to class. You will need to come to class having read and commented on your groupmates' REVISED work. |