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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 and Saturday.
- Read Stoner and Perkins, Chap 3 and Chap 9.
- FirstPassAtCriticalMethodExercise: So far, your work, while focusing on observing and describing, has mixed description, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation. You can really see this in your work with SeeingAsACritic, where description moves quickly interpretation. S&P in chapter 3 start to distingusih between those four different ways of looking at the object, and it asks you to start isloationg these four ways of viewing as you work - starting with neutral description and moving to analysis, which brings in a set of terms to look with. Chapters 4 - 7 will address these practices in more detail, but this next exercise asks you to isolate one kind of viewing - description - and then draw on some rhetorical concepts (from chapter 9) to catalogue what you see. It demands close observation, awareness of what you’re doing, a focus on the thing you’re looking at rather than your impression of it, and withholding evaluation. Piece of cake, right?
- Get started on FirstPassAtCriticalMethodExercise for Tue 9 Sept. We'll look at how it's going on Tuesday and I'll give some feedback, Then expect to re-approach it, to complete by Thursday, 11 Sep.
- As usual, questions in the comments on the exercise page.
Tue 9 Sep
- Chap 3 and notes exercise debriefing.
- We meet face to face on Tuesday, but not Thursday this week.
- The Overwrite warning.
- If you save, then use the back button rather than double-clicking, you might get an Overwrite warning in red. That only means the wiki is confused. Select all the text you're editing, copy it, then Cancel the save. After you save, see if the version is complete. It usually is. But if not, double-click to edit the page, select everything, then paste the version you have on the clipboard into the wiki and save.
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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