Flout of Relation:Elements of E-Rhetoric

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Flout of Relation

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Describing

occasion
exigence
the type of discourse: forensic, deliberative, epideictic
forum and genre
cultural and historical context
presuppositions of shared ways of thinking

from Myers

sphericules

Reference

Elements of Electronic Rhetoric

ENGL 3179/5179

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Announcements

Tues 30 Oct

We'll start a new project - a short one - on Tuesday, looking at how bloggers use links - in part to test out Myers's ideas, and in part to see what else we can see.

Start a new page for your work on this project titled LinksAndLinking - followed by your initials
Read Myers, chap 3. Take notes as needed.
Find and link to three or four blogs (Google subjects you're interested in. On the results page, click on More, then on blogs.) I'd suggest looking for personal blogs rather than those kept by corporations or institutions. You might select them from the same or different sphericules: That's up to you. You'll be working with one or two of these for the next couple of weeks, so choose something you can sink your teeth into. Look each of them over before you commit.
We'll start work with your selected weblogs in class on Tuesday, using HowBloggersUseLinksExercise, part 1
Start part 1 in class. Description should be complete by class time on Thursday.

Thurs 1 Nov

Continue in-class work on How Bloggers Use Links, part 2. Description should be complete

Analysis

You can draw on my notes in HowBloggersUseLinksExercise, but refer to Myers, chap 3, for more complete explanations.
Start looking systematically for patterns of use, drawing on Myer's taxonomy as a starting point. Look across time. Look across length of posts. Look across topics ...
You'll need to gather and check perhaps 40 - 50 incidents to get a good pattern.
You may need to figure out a way to keep a count of the links: a table, a list ... Use the wiki, or paper if that's more convenient.
Start developing your generalizations and selecting examples to illustrate it on the wiki.
Have a look at how Myer's presents his analyses in chap 3. That's a good starting point.
Myer's taxonomy is a guide, a framework, not a set of pigeon holes. Be open to multiple uses in a single link. Be open to uses and ways of linking that Myers doesn't mention.
For Tuesday, work up to the section on rhetorical figures and wit.

Tues 6 Nov

Review of what you've found so far.
On wit: GriceOnFlouts
Extending your analysis to use of wit in links. Presence, patterns.
You're not yet coming to any conclusions on what your evidence means, although you may have some tentative ideas. Catalog, classify, locate examples, but hold off on drawing interpretations.

Thurs 8 Nov

Continue analysis on flouts. Time to work in class. Review of what you've found on wit.
Figures

F0r Tuesday, class time

Complete description (observation) and analysis (factual statements). How do you know when you're pretty complete? The following test might help:
Start a new page: InterpretingLinking - followed by your initials.
On that page, make a list of 8 - 10 - 12 general observations about how the blogger uses links, that draw on the terms of your analyses. This is a way of starting yourself on interpretation.
Another way of testing whether you are ready to move to interpretation: Could you write a series of blog posts that use links in the same way your blogger does?

Tues 13 Nov

Interpreting what you've found.

Thus 15 Nov

Wrapping up How Bloggers Use Links

Can't find a blog?

Try one of these.

on deck

IDing rhetorical figures
Extending your analysis to use of rhetorical figures in links

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