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Getting Started
- WhatMakesThisRhetorical2016
- ObservingTheRhetoricalSituationOfATweet
- OverviewOfRhetoricalMessages
- TheTexualizedRhetoricalSituation
Argument
Memes
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)
Elements of the rhetorical situation in detail
- immediate occasion
- exigence
- issue
- types of discourse that can be used to address the situatin
- judicial - to make judgements on the past
- deliberative - to consider for the future
- epideictic - to praise or blame, celebrate, in the present
- forum and genre in that forum
- historical and cultural context in which the immediate occasion exists
- presuppositions are part of this cultural context that are (more or less) shared by rhetor and listener
Elements of Electronic Rhetoric
ENGL 3179-5179 Fall 2017
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Week of 12 Sep
- In class Tues: ObservingTheRhetoricalSituationOfATweet
- OverviewOfRhetoricalMessages.
- TheTexualizedRhetoricalSituation
for Tue 19 Sep, 6:00 am
- Read Chap 3: Argumentation pp 44-80.
- On-line students: There will be an exercise due Tue 19 Sep, 6:00 am. I'll post it to you on Weds or Friday.
- Come prepared to observe and take notes on how a web page makes an argument. We'll start this in class.
- Take notes on this chapter: NotesChap3 - your initials. I'll be asking you to supplement notes on this chapter with examples you locate on the web.
- Compose your notes to supplement the text: add examples, develop the ideas in your own words, ...
- There is a lot in the chapter that you need to consider: a lot of major and minor terms that address argument as a whole, and presentational enthymemes in particular. We're going to focus on two angles from this chapter: rhetorical appeals, and presentational argument: enthymemes.
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