Today’s Plan:
- Feedback Marathon
- Super Bowl Ads
- Jim Corder, “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love”
- Homework
Epideictic Encounter
[Branches of rhetoric, Latour and the social, Exigence].
Let’s Read: Jim Corder, “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love”
I’ve brought copies and there’s a .pdf in Canvas. Questions:
Homework
My homework is to comment on your Rhetorical Analysis drafts. While I work on that, I’d like you to read the Corder and the Blankenship .pdfs that are in Canvas.
My standard 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?
Write-Up #3, due Friday, asks you to respond to Corder and Blankenship. [Note: we will start reading the Blankenship in class together on Wednesday. Finish the Corder before then.]
