Today’s Plan:
- Grade Norming a Few Reports
- Looking Ahead to Project 2
- Jim Corder’s “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love”
Grade Norming a Few Reports
We will do this.
Looking Ahead to Project 2
I have a workspace up. It is a mess. I’m going to wait until Thursday to share it.
Homework
For Thursday, read Corder’s “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love.” There is a Canvas discussion post due on Thursday at 10:30am. I will be looking at your responses before Thursday’s class.
Either write a lot about one of these questions or less about two. No, I won’t quantify what a lot means. One or two sentences is not a lot.
- 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]
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On Thursday, I’ll ask you to join a Proficiency project team (either Social Media Management, Print and Web Design, or Grant Writing). Every team has homework for next Tuesday’s class. See below.
Social Media Team
Homework: Read Campbell, How to Build and Mobilize a Social Media Community for Your Nonprofit in 90 Days (2020). I have pre-read this book for you. So here’s the sections on which I’d like you to focus:
- “Social Media Will Get Us More Visibility (pp. 15-17; see also 25-26 on value exchange)
- “Think Like a Journalist” (pp. 27-29)
- “Setting Clear Goals” (48-49)
- “Picking Platforms / Instagram” (85-86)
- “Matching Up Tasks” (93-96; content ideas)
- 6 Pillars of Content (pp. 121-158; divide up for memo–make sure someone reads all 6 pillars)
Design Team
Read White Space is Not Your Enemy on Design/Layout Sins. Locate a picture of an unfortunate/sad/ugly/bad design around campus, one that obviously breaks several of Golumbiski and Hagen’s rules.
Then read WSINYE’s chapter on the “Works Every Time Layout.”
Finally, redesign your flyer in either Canva or InDesign (see below). Upload a .pdf or .jpg of your both your found-layout0sin and your redesign to Canvas as Deliverable #1.
Note #1: if you are in ENG 328 you should use InDesign for your revision. If you are not, then I recommend using Canva (a free online design software).
Note #2: if you are not in ENG 328, then you should probably use the Works Every Time Layout for your redesign. If you are in ENG 328, then I would encourage you to do something a bit more ambitious.
Grant Writing Team
The grant writing project has a bit more reading connected to it, since there’s quite a bit to learn about the process of both identifying a grant and the planning, drafting, and revising a grant.
Typically, I break the grant writing team into two groups and each group writes a memo/summary/heuristic to the other group. A divide and conquer strategy.
Group one reads Part I, pages 15-118 (in the 4th edition, sections Lessons 2-5 and Funders Roundtable #1). Group 2 reads Part II (119-189) and Funders Roundtable #2 (243-257).
As you read, I want you to put reading notes into a collaborative Google Doc. We want to assemble a document that highlights best practices–what to do. You are likely going to read a lot of practical advice on grant making (and even if two people are reading the same sections, they are likely to see/prioritize different things), so these collaborative reading notes are a way of sharing/developing our labor.
