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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

Elements of Electronic Rhetoric

ENGL 3179/5179

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Announcements

for Tues 24 Sep

ProgressionInAWebSiteExercise
Refer to SomeTechniquesForObserving to focus your attention on rhetorical elements when you draw up the description of the site.

Update 3:45 pm Mon 22 Sep
I received an email from Little House Living, and took down the link to the site temporarily. In a second email, the owner, Merissa, gave us permission to continue. Go ahead with your descriptions and analysis for Tuesday.

comparing notes on ProgressionInAWebSiteExercise
cataloguing analytical observations
Morgan's notes - ProgressionHandlist

Thurs 26 Sep

ProgressionInAWebSiteExercise, part 2
A few variations within the genre

for Tues 1 Oct

Start a new page: ProgressionInAWebsiteTwo.
Use the guidance on ProgressionInAWebSiteExercise to analyze a second blog: <http://learningthroughfood.blogspot.com>. This is a foodie blog - not quite the same genre as rural living blogs but a good variation. Start with an overall description. I'll give you as start in in class - and description should be going more quickly now. Then turn your eye to analyzing the means of progression you see. Your analysis can be a set of notes, interspersed with paragraphs of summary. Not an essay, but a progressive record of what you're finding by way of progression.
You can confine your overview of the blog to posts from 2013.
You can - must! - take note of the differences and similarities in progression between what you find on this site and what you found on littlehouseliving.com. Make note of the differences, the variations, the similarities.
Analysis uses the concepts of the theory you're applying to the artifact. Use Longaker's in considering what you find, as mentioned in ProgressionInAWebSiteExercise.
Analyze the text and images of at least two posts to get a sense of how progression is used in the posts themselves.
Patterns: Watch for patterns as listed on ProgressionInAWebSiteExercise. One occurrence of a move isn't much to go on. When you detect patterns, you have something more solid.

Tues 1 Oct

Presenting what you found at http://learningthroughfood.blogspot.com

Thu 3 Oct

Start AlternativeProgressionOnAWebsite. Final will be due Sunday. But get started on the exercise to see if you have any questions we need to address in class.

on deck for description

entry points

compare http://www.mit.edu with http://www.bemidjistate.edu

Participants

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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