Today’s Plan:
- Corder
- Blankenship
- For Next Class / Slight Time Line Change
Corder, “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love”
I have a stock lecture on Corder. I’m not sure if I’m going to use it.
Let me pull up my standard 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?
Blankenship
Reviewing Papers / Revising Thoughts
I’d like to look at two strong paragraphs I’ve come across in the drafts.
For Next Class / Slight Time Line Change
As I’m reviewing the papers, I get the sense that people might need a bit of help reviewing the Miller. While I’ve reviewed a few full drafts, I’ve also reviewed some outlines and some rather rough drafts. (This morning I have 9 more drafts to read–so I’m glad to see more people have turned something in; I’ll have them all completed by tomorrow night).
The final papers will be due next Wednesday before class. But I want to slightly shift two assignments:
- The Write Up on Corder and Blankenship will be due next Monday. We’ll talk about Blankenship in class then. You can find a .pdf of the Blankenship reading in Canvas.
- Please bring your copy of the Miller book to class on Friday. I want to try something–to see if we can collectively scavenger hunt the quotes/terms/ideas folks need for their papers.
