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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
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for week of Tue 2 Sep: Exercises and Reading in Stoner and Perkins
- Read TheTexualizedRhetoricalSituation and ReadingWikiNamePages to get a sense of how rhetorical analysis approaches these matters. With that in mind,
- Visit the WikiName pages of others. Read them and consider them: the text, the design, the headings, the images - and consider how they work rhetorically. Consider the choices others made in addressing the name page space. Consider how the owner of that page - the actual rhetor - used text, headings, naming the page, embedded images, layout to create an implied rhetor addressing an implied audience. Leave comments, as formal or informal as you like, on a few. Say hello.
- Edit / reformat / redesign your WikiName page if you'd like. You can redesign your page whenever you want to.
Part 2
- You'll want to do this by Sunday or Monday. Before you start reading Stoner and Perkins, do the BalconyViewExercise on the wiki. It takes about half an hour. This exercise anticipates some discussion in chapter 2.
- 1 Sept: Have a look at a few balcony view exercises in progress to get a sense of how closely you'll need to recount the situation.
- Now read Stoner and Perkins, chaps 1- 2.
- We meet face to face on Tuesday, but not Thursday.
Participants
I'll add your WikiName to this list when you set up your page.ZacharyVanDrunen | JordanLong | AnthonyBurn | EmmaGuthrie | JacobWinter | MirandaReinartz | ShaneFaria | LoganKendall | NickPhillips | AndreaNadeau| ArthurMalcomson | EmilieBrouse| AbigailSwartz| GillStudent | MorganAdmin | PastParticipants
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.
On Deck
- HandlistOfERhetoric - draft
- [[On deck: Get note spaces organized. Go to your WikiName page. Create a page for your notes titled NotesOnStonerAndPerkins - followed by your initials. As in NotesOnStonerAndPerkinsMCM. [more to come] ]]
Useful pages: FormattingRules, WikkaDocumentation, OrphanedPages, WantedPages, TextSearch.
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