Date In-Class
For Next Time
TH
Aug 27
Introductions to course, each other, and basic rhetorical principles: audience, exigence, constraints, appeals.
Extra: Monty Python's Argument Clinic deomonstrates the diff b/w contradiction and argument
Sign up for the class wiki and p ost an introduction to yourself there. Read ch 1 & 2 Optional: Bitzer's "Rhetorical Situation "
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Sept 1
Kairos and Rhetorical Situation + discuss fable progymnasma + sign up list for future figures of the day (reference sheet )
FIGURES OF THE DAY SCHEDULE
Read Gorgias's "Encomium of Helen " + complete fable exercise on the class wiki .
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Sept 3
Discuss Gorgias + discussion of the narrative or tale progymnasma + figures of the day (Metonymy/Synecdoche -Davis)
Ch 5 + complete narrative exercise (p 38-42) the wiki
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Sept 8
Logos + discussion of chreia progymnasma
Ch 6 and 7
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Sept 10
Ethos and Pathos + discussion of analysis 1 assignment + figures of the day--Raimy (Catachresis/Irony)
And finally: the Kinky ad
Selzer's "Rhetorical Analysis " + find a text to analyze for first assignment
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Sept 15
Discuss Selzer + analysis paper + figures of the day Jean K. and Jennie C. (Litotes/Hyperbole)
Prepare rhetorical analysis for peer review
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Sept 17
Peer review analysis 1 + discuss chreia assignment
Revise analysis + complete the chreia exercise (64-66)
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Sept 22
Analysis 1 due . Discuss analysis 2 assignment + confirmation progymnasma. Complete lab password update . Time to correct chreia format or begin confirmation or find text for analysis 2.
Read Ch 3 + complete the confirmation exercise (113-116) + find another article to analyze for assignment 2
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Sept 24
Some exemplary chreia exercises . Discuss stasis theory + refutation progymnasma + figures of the day: Jake and Ashley (Pun/Enallage)
An interesting definitional argument
Read Ch 4 + Burke's "Rhetoric of Hitler's Battle " + complete refutation exercise (113-116)
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Sept 29
Discuss commonplaces and Burke + figure of the day: Dave and Thomas (Periphrasis)
(David Letterman gives us a nice piece on commonplaces as cliches)
Complete anaylsis 2 for peer review
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Oct 1
Peer review analysis 2
Revise analysis 2 + read analysis 3 description and begin thinking about a public debate to analyze
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Oct 6
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 class wiki + complete commonplace exercise (154-157)
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Oct 8
Discuss the pentad + workshop "public debate" ideas + figures of the day: Jeff S and Ruben R (Parallelism/Accumulation)
Make a firm decision about a public debate.
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Oct 13
Analysis 1 rewrites due . Discuss encomium progymnasma + time to research public debate + figures of the day: Sean and Kate E. (Parataxis/Hypotaxis)
complete encomium exercise186-193).
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Oct 15
Research Day: No Class. Gather public debate sources.
Keep working on public debate assignment
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Oct 20
Workshop of public debate choices . Vituperation/invective progymnasma + figures of the day: Emma and Jenny A. (Polysyndeton/Asyndeton)
Read Ch 8. Complete vituperation/invective exercise (186-193)
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Oct 22
Discuss extrinsic proofs + figure of the day: Kelsey and Anne (Praeteritio)
prepare "public debate" assignment for peer review
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Oct 27
Peer review analysis 3 + a fine analysis 2 model.
revise analysis 3
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Oct 29
Discuss comparison progymnasma + figures of the day: Sara and Katie (Ellipses/Parenthesisi)
Complete comparison exercise and finish Analysis 3
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Nov 3
Analysis 3 due . Discuss advocacy assignment + documentation + description progymnasma
Read Nietzsche's On Truth and Lie + complete description exercise (264-266)
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Nov 5
Discuss Nietzsche + figures of the day: Carissa and Liz (Hyperbaton/Zeugma
Work on advocacy assignment
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Nov 10
Discuss citing sources. Peer conferences on the position you'll advocate. Figures of the day: Eric R (Apostrophe)
Read Ch. 9 + be working on final project
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Nov 12
Discuss arrangement via this example paper . Figures of the day: Henry (Prolepsis)
A few good examples of analysis 2
Some very fine examples of Analysis 3: Sean's , Jennie's , Jean's , Emma's , and Ajai Raj's (from last year)
Be working on final project + Read Chapter 1 of J. L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words
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Nov 17
Rewrites of analysis 2 due . Discuss Austin + active/passive voice
Prepare the self-analysis of your project for workshopping on TH. (From the assignment sheet: "You'll need also to produce a 2 page self-analysis of your own argument, describing your audience, exigency, and forum, along with the rhetorical strategies and stylistic effects you have employed and why." )
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Nov 19
Workshop self-analysis (20-30min) + figures of the day: Elaina and Salma (Aporia/Prosopoeia--Gordon and Daniel). + sign up for conferences with me + course evals.
Complete rewrites of analysis 3 + prepare advocacy paper for peer review
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Nov 24
Fix the Tuesday conference schedule (none b/w 2-3:30)
Rewrites of Analysis 3 due. Peer review final project
revise final project
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Nov 26
THANKSGIVING
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Dec 1
Conferences with me Monday and Tuesday
complete final project
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Dec 3
Final project due ; debriefing
