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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
- TheTexualizedRhetoricalSituation
- ReadingWikiNamePages
- MorgansNotesOnMessagesChap1
- MorgansNotesOnMessagesChap2
- OverviewOfMethod - Morgan's notes on Chap 3
- SomeTechniquesForObserving
- MorgansNotesOnMSUTechWritingPage
- FirstPassAtCriticalMethodExercise
- FirstPassAtCriticalMethodDebriefing
- MorgansNotesOnMessagesChap4
- TextAndContextInFourWebsitesProject
Elements of Electronic Rhetoric
ENGL 3179/5179 Fall 2014
CourseSyllabus | CourseStatement | AboutThisWiki | Morgan's WikiAnnouncements
Older announcements are on the CourseSyllabus page.Tue 16 Sep
- MorgansNotesOnMSUTechWritingPage
- > FirstPassAtCriticalMethodDebriefing
- Review of chapter 4
- Start the TextAndContextInFourWebsitesProject
- Create a page titled TextAndContextProject - followed by your initials. You can do the rest of this project in that page.
- MorgansNotesOnMessagesChap4
- First pass ready for review by Sunday, 21 Sep.
- Optional reference: Parsing sentences, for editors and rhetorical critics to get a sense of how sentences operate.
- Useful reference: Web Design Conventions. The StrunkNWhite of web design is The Web Style Guide, 3rd ed, Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton, in print from Yale UP, and online. The guide is as prescriptive they come, and so it is useful in getting a sense of context for a rhetorical analyses of web sites.
Reminder: We do not meet face to face this Thur 18 Sep
Sunday, 21 Sep
- First pass at TextAndContextInFourWebsitesProject for review by Sunday, 21 Sep.
Tue 23 Sep
- A look at how TextAndContextInFourWebsitesProject is going.
Reminder: We do not meet face to face this Thu 25 Sep
- This will be the last Thu we do not meet. Stay tuned.
Tips and Suggestions
- The Overwrite warning. If you save a page, then use the back button rather than double-clicking to get back to editing, 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.
- Use RecentComments at the top of the page to check on FAQs.
Participants
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- 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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