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Condiment Persuasion at Market Cafe
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
- WhatMakesThisRhetorical
- SomeTechniquesForObserving
- KairosAndTheRhetoricalSituation
- OverviewOfMethod
- HandlistOfWeblogs
- NotesOnLongakerOnStyle
- AlternativeProgressionOnAWebsite
Elements of Electronic Rhetoric
ENGL 3179/5179
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Thu 10 Oct
- Catalogue of stylistic choices in the Moleskine text
- How the text persuades by style
At this point, we bring back in
- the rhetorical situation, especially
- the occasion
- the subject
- the implied audience - implied rhetor relation
for Friday, midnight
To finish up: move to interpretation: write a couple of paragraphs in which you use your annotating and cataloging to consider- How the style of the Moleskine text operates within the rhetorical situation.
- What that way of operating, what this particular confrontation of situation, subject, and style, might tell us about rhetoric at large.
Tue 15 Oct
- StyleOnTumblrProject
- By Thurs, description complete. First 5 posts selected. Starting to catalogue in class.
Thu 17 Oct
- workday
- Refer to Silva Rhetorica for more details on figures, if needed
Due Tue 22 Oct
- pretty complete catalogue of figures on first five posts you selected.
- Staring second five on Tuesday.
OnMetonymy
Participants
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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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