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Recomposing Royals
Just one instance of appropriation of Royals. It's recomposing, giving #rhetorical_velocity to Lourde. Puddles sings Royals
A definition of rhetoric
A 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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Course starts 26 Aug.Tues 26 Aug
- intros
- CourseSyllabus
Required texts
- Stoner and Perkins. Making Sense of Messages,Houghton Mifflin, 2004. ISBN-10: 0205564518. I recommend renting this book or buying it used. We're using chaps 1 - 8.
- Myers, Greg. The Discourse of Blogs and Wikis. Continuum, 2010. ISBN-13: 978-1847064141
- Other readings and media distributed by the instructor
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
Useful pages: FormattingRules, WikkaDocumentation, OrphanedPages, WantedPages, TextSearch.
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