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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
Elements of Electronic Rhetoric
ENGL 3179-5179 Fall 2015
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Course starts 25 Aug 12:30. Hs 109. Meets face to face weekly on Tuesdays. Assignments and exercises are required to be posted online at scheduled times.Tue 25 Aug: Start Up
We'll spend the couple weeks of the course getting set up, developing a method for taking notes, and establishing a pace for exercises.- Online students in ENGL 5179: Use ERhetStartUp page.
- Intros
- CourseStatement
- Text: Longaker and Walker
- Face to face: Intro to wiki, and assignment to SetUpAWikiNamePageExercise
- All: If you have questions on the course statement or the course, post them in the Comments at the bottom of the CourseStatement page.
Thu 27 Aug
- Questions? Post them them in the Comments section of the CourseStatement page.
- Deadline: The SetUpAWikiNamePageExercise due by 9:00am. You should be registered on the wiki, have some practice in, and have a wiki name page set up by this time.
Fri 28 Aug
10:18 AMNearly everyone is registered on the wiki and set up, so I want to give everyone a chance to settle in with an exercise in seeing rhetoric.
- If you have the Longaker and Walker text, read the first chapter as a brief orientation to what we're studying (rhetoric) and what we're doing (rhetorical analysis). Then turn your attention to the exercise, WhatMakesThisRhetorical.
- As always, read the exercise carefully, as you would a textbook, mark it up if that's your preference.
- Due by Tue 1 Sep 9:00am.
- Questions? Ask them in the comments section of the WhatMakesThisRhetorical page. Or email me.
Tue 1 Sep
- 9:00am: WhatMakesThisRhetorical due.
- Face to face debrief of WhatMakesThisRhetorical exercise.
- My debrief notes posted
- Read Longaker, chaps 1 - 2 to p 21. Expect an exercise due Thu.
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- 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.
On Deck
- HandlistOfERhetoric - draft
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