Today’s Plan:
- Corder Questions
- Corder Lecture
- Closing Thought
- Homework:
Corder Questions
Group One: [sections 1-3]: What does Corder mean by the idea that we make narratives? Why do said narratives complicate traditional notions of argument and rhetoric?
Group Two: [sections 4-6]: How can we describe Rogerian method? Why is Corder skeptical that such a method can be useful to rhetoric?
Group Three: [section 6-7]: Looking at section 7, would your frame Corder as an optimist or pessimist? What do “we” have to learn (and who are the “we” of this section’s final paragraphs)?
Group Four: [Section 8]:What do we make of section 8? Why is this story here? What does it exemplify or reinforce?
Group Five: [Section 9]: What does it mean to be “perpetually opening and closing” (29)? How can such a position help us be better? How does it tie to the other advice offered in this section?
Corder Questions #2
What challenge does Corder issue that problematizes all rhetoric, but especially positivistic rhetoric? // Why is Corder opposed to framing Rogers as a model for *all* argument? (His critique of Maxine Hairston, which involves one of the greatest “shade” sentences in the history of academia)
What dimensions does Corder add to argument that are often ignored?
What is the meaning(s) of the anecdote Corder uses later in the essay? Why include it? What claim/idea does it support?
Why does Corder use the word “love”? In what way is Corder’s approach to rhetoric like “love”? [That’s a really interesting terministic choice. I have a few ideas that I’ll share with you in class, but I am interested in how you interpret his decision. Note that I think this is *by far* the hardest question]
Homework
I’d like you to spend about 45 minutes reading your optional text. Those text choices were:
- Grant Writing: Karsh and Fox, The Only Grant Writing Book You Will Ever Need (Recommended) (Focus on Funder’s Roundtables)
- Document Design: Golumbiski and Hagen, White Space is Not Your Enemy (Recommended) (Focus on Design Sins and Works Every Time Layout)
- Campbell, How to Build and Mobilize a Social Media Community for Your Nonprofit in 90 Days(Recommended)
We’ll start project 2 (a week and a half late!) on Thursday. Normally, I would put you into mini-teams focused on the different deliverables we’re to produce for our community partners; this semester, because we are behind, I am going to do a non-profit …
Schedule:
- Thursday, in-class we will do a grant writing crash course. For homework, you will revise a portion of a grant application.
- Tuesday, in-class we will review Golumbiski and Hagen’s Design Sins. For homework, you will review the Works Every Time layout approach and identify a flyer that requires a redesign.
- Thursday, we will work in the computer lab to redesign a flyer. For homework, you will read Fadde and Sullivan.
- Tuesday, we will collaborate to write an email based on the scenario in the Fadde and Sullivan
- Thursday, we will discuss social media, practice writing a tweet, and design an instagram post. I should have all of the reports returned by then, so your homework will be to revise Project 1
