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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
- WhatMakesThisRhetorical
- SomeTechniquesForObserving
- KairosAndTheRhetoricalSituation
- OverviewOfMethod
- HandlistOfWeblogs
- NotesOnLongakerOnStyle
- AlternativeProgressionOnAWebsite
- StyleOnTumblrProject
- OnMetonymy
Elements of Electronic Rhetoric
ENGL 3179/5179
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Thu 31 Oct
- StyleOnTumblrProject, concluding
- On connections between image and text: Visual deixis and visual anaphora
- Image and Text
For Tue 5 Nov, Style, Part 2 EOF
Tue 5 Nov
- Next - RhetoricalVelocity
- In class - An IntroExerciseInRhetoricalVelocity
- re-think audience, kairos
for Thu
- read, markup chap 4 from Sheridan, Ridolfo, and Michel (handout).
- If you don't have a Twitter account, set one up. Find and follow some others.
Thu 7 Nov
- in class search for means of gaining velocity on Twitter
Participants
AnthonyBurn | JadeDockendorf | AmberGordon | TaylorGustafson | WhitneyJackson | AshleyJuenemann, | JennahKelley | SarahPirila | DanielRundell | AlexanderSchlee | JordanShearer | MelindaSingleton | DavidTeeples | TriciaTuntland | KyleeUncini | DawnDavid | ErinMarsh | AmyMoschkau | MorganAdmin | PastParticipantsnew
- 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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