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1

m-5.11.09

Introduction & What is Rhetoric?

 

w-5.13.09

Rhetoric and Dialectic

  • Respond to instructor's introductory email
  • Read Plato The Phaedrus
  • Read On Rhetoric pp. ix-xiii, 1-23, 27-51
  • Compose a 300-word email to the instructor in which you define dialectic, explain how it is different from rhetoric, and find, summarize, and explain an example of it from Plato's The Phaedrus
2

m-5.18.09

Rhetoric and Audience

w-5.20.09

The Appeals: Ethos

  • Read On Rhetoric pp. 148-156
  • Read Butler, "Doing Justice to Someone" [BB]
  • Read Cherry "Ethos Versus Persona" [Written Communication 5.3]
3

m-5.25.09

No Class: Memorial Day

 

w-5.27.09

The Appeals: Pathos

4

m-6.1.09

The Appeals: Logos

  • Read On Rhetoric pp. 156-171
  • Read Campbell from The Philosophy of Rhetoric (Books IV-VI) [BB]
  • Read Wysocki "With eyes that think, and compose, and think" [BB]
  • Compose two WikiRhet Revisions on WetPaint
 

w-6.3.09

The Canon: Invention

  • Read On Rhetoric pp. 172-192
  • Read Burke, "Introduction" and "Container of thing contained" [BB]
  • Read Zulick, "The ethos of invention" [BB]
  • Submit Rhetorical Analysis Paper as an email attachment to the instructor by the end of the day, Friday June 5, 2009
5

m-6.8.09

The Canon: Arrangement

  • Read On Rhetoric pp. 229-250
  • Read Toulmin, "The layout of an argument" [BB]
  • Read Kaplan "Cultural Thought Patterns..." [Language Learning 16.1-2]
  • Compose one WikiRhet Revisions on WetPaint
 

w-6.10.09

The Canon: Style

  • Read On Rhetoric pp. 197-229
  • Read Blair from Lectures of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (X, XIV, XIX) [BB]
  • Read Micciche "Making a Case for Rhetorical Grammar" [College Composition an Communication 55.4]
6

m-6.15.09

The Canon: Delivery

 

w-6.17.09

The Canon: Memory
7

m-6.22.09

Kairos

 

 

w-6.24.09

Poster Session