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A definition of rhetoric
Here's a fairly modest but pragmatic, easy-to-hang-onto definition of rhetoric from Stoner and Perkins:The art and science of creating and analyzing "messages that rely on verbal and nonverbal symbols that more or less intentionally influence social attitudes, values, beliefs, and actions." (6)
Describing
Situation- occasion
- exigence
- the type of discourse: forensic, deliberative, epideictic
- forum and genre
- cultural and historical context
- presuppositions of shared ways of thinking
Message
- page layout
- page flow
- text flow
- navigation
- text
- paragraphs
- sentences
- register
Reference
Elements of Electronic Rhetoric
ENGL 3179/5179
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Required textLongaker and Walker. Rhetorical Analysis. 2011. amazon
Course begins 27 Aug 2013. CourseStatement
Tues 27 Aug
- intros
- CourseStatement
- text: Rhetorical Analysis
- Class shortened owing to power outage
Thurs 29 Aug
- questions on syllabus
- WhatMakesThisRhetorical: An in-class exercise in rhetorical perspective
- read Longaker, Chap 1 and 2, to p 21
- optional exercise: Start seeing rhetorical artifacts
Tues 3 Sept
- questions on Longaker, Chap 1 and 2, to p 21
- intro to the wiki
- OverviewOfRhetoricalMessages
Thurs 5 Sept: Method
- OverviewOfMethod
- Some practice in class
- for Tues, description exercise
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- HandlistOfERhetoric - draft
- We will be experimenting this semester with screencasts and online video conferences for the class, using Skype and Google Hangouts. Students in the graduate section will be asked to help coordinate these experiments
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