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Elements of Electronic Rhetoric

ENGL 3179/5179

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Tues 6 April

ARhetoricOfTwitter
Sign up with Twitter <http://twitter.com> and find a some people to follow. Use <http://twitter.com/invitations/suggestions>. Or search for keywords: <http://twitter.com/invitations/find_on_twitter>. Follow @WeblogsandWikis.
Read Sagola, 140 Characters, chap 1 - 3

in class

group description, observation, and notes one the RhetoricalElementsOfTwitter
look at text box, streams, communicative positions, rhetorical affordances, rhetorical information available ...
Twitter names on board. Follow each other.

Thurs 8 April

Highlights and discussion of Sagolla, chaps 1 - 3

Getting organized for ARhetoricOfTwitter project

Form pairs to work in class on observing and describing elements, twitterers to follow, draft a project topic. Each create your own page for observation notes.
Start recording the rhetorical conventions of Twitter as mentioned in 140 Characters, and as you see them unfolding in your Twitter stream. (Describing). Use Favorites to isolate interesting tweets that might be useful for examples later.
You can do much of this by observing, but you are welcome to enter the Twitter stream and see how you might influence it.
Keep your eye on pages ARhetoricOfTwitter and RhetoricalElementsOfTwitter for developments.

Over weekend, read 140 Characters, chaps 4 - 13.

Tues 13 April

Discussion and notes on parts 2 and 3
In class group work: defining a project
Projects: for today, define a project

what you want to look at
how you're going to approach it: method,
what you expect to see.
Then, comb through Sagolla looking for suggestions of what to look for: to form up a section of the search model. ie: rhetorical figures appear not just in chap 10 but around p 40. Kairos appears everywhere. Audience is everywhere. Try the index.
Compile Sagolla's ideas so you can use them as a search model.

Thurs 15 April

work day
Notes on the rhetorical situation. A simple search model that can get you started. ARhetoricOfTwitter
Define the project, start a page, start collecting samples and drawing together search model ideas from Sagolla and chap 9.
Over weekend, read Sagolla, parts 4 and 5.

Tues 21 April

Twiter used to get home and use of the #ashtag. Get it? Ash - tag?
workday
By the end of the day, you should have samples collected and search model notes compiled - and ready for full-fledged analysis.

Thurs 23 April

workday
Analysis: You should be using terms / concepts from the search model, drawing from chap 9 and from Sagolla. Stay close to the search model - meaning close to the terms.
Comb through Sagolla looking for suggestions of what to look for: to form up a section of the search model. ie: rhetorical figures appear not just in chap 10 but around p 40. Kairos appears everywhere. Audience is everywhere. Try the index. Compile Sagolla's ideas so you can use them as a search model.

Tues 28 April

last day of class

Final

Weds, 5 May 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

present your findings informally using the big screen

Parallel Course

ENGL 3179/5179: Weblogs and Wikis. Conversation and community with WordPress, wikis, and Flickr; micro-blogging with Twitter and Tumblr.

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ENGL 3179/5179 Elements of Electronic Rhetoric
A project-based course in digital and new media

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