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Anachronism by way of Digital Degeneration

Elements of Electronic Rhetoric

ENGL 3179/5179

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Update: Fri 31 Aug

The Longaker book is still not in at the BSU Bookstore nor the Beaver Bookstore. I've added a link to a pdf scan of the reading for Tuesday.

Texts for Fall, 2012

The texts are available online more cheaply than the price at the BSU Bookstore. You'll need Longaker and Walker right away.

Required

Longaker, M and J Walker. Rhetorical Analysis. Longman Pearson, 2011.
Myers, Greg. The Discourse of Blogs and Wikis. Continuum, 2010.

Tues 28 Aug

The bookstore is having difficulty finding copies of The Discourse of Blogs and Wikis, Myers. Try there first, but it is available new, used, and for Kindle on Amazon.
CourseStatement
intros
OverviewOfRhetoricalMessages

for Thurs: Start Seeing Rhetoric

For Thursday, I'd like you to read the statement I handed out in class. You'll likely read it in multiple ways. For instance, you'll probably read the text to get the information of what the course entails. And you'll probably read it to get a sense of the course itself - that is, to characterize the course as it is represented in the statement in various ways, by various means. It's those "various means" we're interested in for Thursday.

I'd like you compile a list of affordances - elements, features, moves, things - that you see operating in this statement that make it a rhetorical message - elements that operate rhetorically. Make your list on a piece of paper, a card, the print out of a digital file, whatever - but something you can hand to me on Thursday at the beginning of class. There are at least a dozen kinds of affordances, probably dozens - depending on how fine grained your observation.

Thurs 30 Aug

Questions about the statement
Noticing rhetorical elements, aka affordances: Observing

Tues 4 Sept

Read Longaker chap 1, and chap 2 to p 21. This chapter introduces some general terminology that you can use to observe rhetorical messages.
Take notes to prepare for Tuesday. Compile some notes on the elements of the rhetorical situation, involving technical terms of occasion, exigence, issue, the types of discourse, forum and genre, the cultural and historical context, and the presuppositions that are part of that context.
Come prepared to work with an in-class task using these technical terms.