Tentative Schedule

This is only a tentative schedule, and it will likely change over the course of the semester--consider it a rough draft that we'll be revising. I will not print out changes to this syllabus, though I will try to tell you about them in class. It's your job to visit this page each week to check assignments.


Date	In-Class	For Next Time
	Fundamental Principles of Rhetoric
T Jan 15	Introductions to course, each other, and basic rhetorical principles: audience, exigence, constraints, appeals	Ch 1 + Sign up for class listserv and send a test note; post an introduction to yourself on the class discussion forum
TH Jan 17	Guest lecture by Eric Pritchard on the significance of exigence and the rhetorical situation	Ch 2 + p. 384-389 (on the progymnasmata and the fable) and Bitzer's "Rhetorical Situation"
T Jan 22	Kairos and Rhetorical Situation + discussion of and practice with the fable progymnasma + sign up list for future figures of the day (reference sheet) FIGURES OF THE DAY SCHEDULE Extra: Monty Python's Argument Clinic deomonstrates the diff b/w contradiction and argument	Read Gorgias's "Encomium of Helen" + complete fable exercise on the class discussion forum
TH Jan 24	Discuss Gorgias + discussion of the narrative or tale progymnasma + figures of the day (Metonymy/Synecdoche-Davis)	Ch 5 + p. 389-92 + complete narrative exercise on the discussion forum
T Jan 29	Logos + discussion of chreia progymnasma	Ch 6 and 7 + p. 392-95 + complete the chreia exercise on the discussion forum
TH Jan 31	Ethos and Pathos + discussion of analysis 1 assignment + figures of the day (Catachresis/Irony--Charlotte and Anthony) Ethos gone wrong: David Letterman's Great Moments in Presidential Speeches More seriously: Invented Ethos Examples And finally: the Kinky ad	Selzer's "Rhetorical Analysis" + find a text to analyze for first assignment
T Feb 5	Discuss Selzer + analysis paper + figures of the day (Litotes/Hyperbole--Paul and Ajai)	Prepare rhetorical analysis for peer review
TH Feb 7	Peer review analysis 1	Revise analysis + begin reading Ch 3

T Feb 12	Analysis 1 due. Complete lab password update . Discuss analysis 2 assignment + confirmation progymnasma	Finish Ch 3 + p. 396-99 + complete the confirmation exercise + find another article to analyze for assignment 2
TH Feb 14	Discuss stasis theory + refutation progymnasma + figures of the day (Pun/Enallage--Brittany and Josh Aguilar)	Read Ch 4 + Burke's "Rhetoric of Hitler's Battle" + complete refutation exercise
T Feb 19	Discuss commonplaces and Burke + figure of the day (Periphrasis--Ashley and Jon) (David Letterman gives us a nice piece on commonplaces as cliches)	Complete anaylsis 2 for peer review

TH Feb 21	Peer review analysis 2	Revise analysis 2 + read analysis 3 description and begin thinking about a public debate to analyze

T Feb 26	Analysis 2 due. Jam for public debate ideas + commonplace progymnasma	Read Hart and Daughton's "Dramatistic Criticism" + propose a public debate to analyze on the discussion forum + complete commonplace exercise
TH Feb 28	Analysis 1 rewrites due. Discuss the pentad + workshop "public debate" ideas + figures of the day (Parallelism/Accumulation--Tanisha and Cecilia)	Read Hart and Daughton's "Feminist Criticism" and "Ideological Critique"
T Mar 4	Discuss feminist and ideologica critique + encomium progymnasma + figures of the day (Parataxis/Hypotaxis--Philip and Christine)	Read Ch 8 + complete encomium exercise.
TH Mar 6	Quick workshop of public debate choices. Discuss extrinsic proofs + vituperation/invective progymnasma + figures of the day (Polysyndeton/Asyndeton--Alle and Josh Strapp) FYI: some excellent analysis 2 papers by your peers to use as models (If Gorgias's Encomium of Helen is an example of the "praise" half of epideictic rhetoric, here are a few "blame" examples: Olbermann on Bush as fascist; and here is one that accomplishes both praise and blame--this is also a good example of comparison)	Complete vituperation/invective exercise + prepare "public debate" assignment for peer review
T Mar 11	No class	spring break
TH Mar 13	No class	spring break
T Mar 18	Peer review analysis 3	revise analysis 3

TH Mar 20	Discuss comparison progymnasma + figures of the day (Ellipses/Parenthesis--Chris Jordan and Anadeli)	Complete comparison exercise and finish Analysis 3
T Mar 25	Analysis 3 due. Discuss advocacy assignment + documentation + description progymnasma	Read Nietzsche's On Truth and Lie + complete description exercise
TH Mar 27	Discuss de Nietzsche + figures of the day (Hyperbaton/Zeugma--Jess and Heath)
T Apr 1	Discuss citing sources. Peer conferences on the position you'll advocate. Figures of the day (Apostrophe/Aposiopesis--Shan and Kevin)	Read Ch 10 + be working on final project
TH Apr 3	No class: 4Cs conference	be working on final project
T Apr 8	Rewrites of analysis 2 due. Discuss arrangement	Read Ch. 11 + be working on final project
TH Apr 10	Discuss style + active/passive voice + comma abuse (try a couple of exercises) + figures of the day (Aporia/Prosopoeia--Gordon and Daniel) ANALYSIS 3 Revision Example	Read Austin's How to Do Things with Words #10 + prepare the self-analysis of your proejct for workshopping on T. (From the assignment sheet: "You'll need also to produce a 2 page self-analysis of your own argument, describing your audience, exegence, and forum, along with the rhetorical strategies and stylistic effects you have employed and why." )
T Apr 15	Rewrites of Analysis 3 due. Discuss Austin + oral presentation and outline (The Audience, The Message, The Speaker) + workshop self-analysis (20-30min)	prepare advocacy paper for peer review
TH Apr 17	Peer review final project + sign up for conferences with me.	revise final project

T Apr 22	No class: conferences with me Monday and Tuesday	complete final project
TH Apr 24	Final project due; final questions about oral presentation (signposting) + figures of the day (Erotema/Prolepsis--Caitlin and Chance) + (praeteritio --Jon); course evals	Practice, practice, practice oral presentation; 6 minutes is the absolute max, and that includes setup time if you're using technology
T Apr 29	Oral presentations begin. We will start at exactly 11am. Please be here and ready to go by the bell.
TH May 1	Oral presentations; wrap up; hand back advocacy papers