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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 Fall 2014
CourseSyllabus | CourseStatement | AboutThisWiki | Morgan's WikiAnnouncements
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
Tue 26 Aug
- intros
- CourseStatement
- The invitation code
We will reduce face to face meetings to one per week starting the week of 1 September. We will meet T 2 Sep, but expect online work on R 4 Sep.
We will meet Tuesdays in September, and the switch to meeting Thursdays from October through December.
Face to face meetings will become voluntary ASAP. Once everyone is comfortable with Stoner and Perkins, with what we're doing, attendance will become voluntary.
for Thu 28 Aug
- Read the CourseStatement - 30 min
- Use two pages to get started on the wiki
- Use Getting Started on the Wiki tutorial to register on the wiki and become familiar with wiki markup.
- Refer to GettingStarted for detailed information on formatting and adding images.
- Once you're registered, do the SetUpAWikiNamePageExercise.
- Have your WikiName page set up by class time R so we can address any problems that come up.
Thu 28 Aug
- Questions on the CourseStatement. Using the Comments.
- Questions on creating and designing your WikiName page.
Participants
I'll add your WikiName to this list when you set up your page.ZacharyVanDrunen | JordanLong | AnthonyBurn | EmmaGuthrie | JacobWinter | MirandaReinartz | MorganAdmin | PastParticipants
for Tue 2 Sep: Four tasks
- Visit the WikiName pages of others. Read them. See how others handled the exercise. Leave a comment on a few. Say hello.
- Edit / reformat your WikiName page if necessary. You can change it whenever you want to.
- Read Stoner and Perkins, chap 1. I'll be posting my notes on this chapter on Tuesday, along with an exercise.
- [[On deck: Get notes organized Go to your WikiName page. Create a page for your notes titled NotesOnStonerAndPerkins - followed by your initials. As in NotesOnStonerAndPerkinsMCM. [more to come]
Tue 2 Sep
- We meet face to face today, but not R.
BootCamp
- Sign up for twitter, if you aren't signed up already. Send a tweet using #erhet3177.
- Search twitter for #erhet3177 to find others in the class. Follow them.
- Follow @mcmorgan/
- Use #erhet3177 for questions, events of note, announcements, images of what you had for breakfast ...
RSS
- Google RSS to get an idea of what it is and how it works.
- Get an RSS reader, or register at an RSS aggregator site.
- Subscribe to the wiki home page (Use the RSS icon at the bottom of the page), and pages that you want to monitor.
new
- HandlistOfERhetoric - draft
Useful pages: FormattingRules, WikkaDocumentation, OrphanedPages, WantedPages, TextSearch.
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