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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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Older announcements are on the CourseSyllabus page.Tue 2 Sep
- Face to face, we'll look at S&P chaps 1 - 2.
- Questions on procedures?
- MorgansNotesOnMessagesChap1
- MorgansNotesOnMessagesChap2
- SeeingAsACritic - due Thursday, class time (1/2 - 1 hr)
- In these exercises, as throughout the course, you're recording your thinking. showing your work. That's what I want to see. That's evidence that you're working with the ideas and practices, the method and the concepts.
Thu 4 Sep
- We don't meet. I'll be reviewing what you've worked on and commenting today and Friday.
- Read Stoner and Perkins, Chap 3 and Chap 9.
- FirstPassAtCriticalMethodExercise. I'll post some notes on method on Friday. Two tips: Description is done neutral language. It is detailed, not a fast and superficial glance. Get a good description down and analysis is a lot easier. So pay special attention to the examples and comment on those examples that S&P present in two columns in Chap 3.
Tue 9 Sep
- Chap 3 and notes exercise debriefing.
- We meet face to face on Tuesday, but not Thursday this week.
Participants
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- 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] ]]
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