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ENG 319 11.T: How Can We Improve Course Evaluations?

Today’s Plan: Review your Research Course Evaluation Project Details For Next Class Course Evaluation Project On Thursday we will meet in the Ross Computer lab. I will ask folks to form groups and begin designing better course evaluation methods. This … Continue reading

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ENG 319 10.R: Catching Up and Moving Forward

Today’s Plan: Trick or Tweet Halloween Contest Schedule Reviewing the Annotated Bibliography For Next Class Trick or Tweet Contest I’d like to see more entries! And more follows. Let’s take 5 minutes. Schedule Week 11 (Nov 5, 7) Tuesday: Review … Continue reading

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ENG 319 7.T: Shitty First Drafts

Today’s Plan: Quick Write: Define Rhetoric On the Importance of Shitty First Drafts Paper Draft Review For Next Class Quick Write: Define Rhetoric On the first day of class, I asked y’all to write a definition of rhetoric. Let’s try … Continue reading

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ENG 319 5.R: Non-Platonic Dialgoues / Corder

Reading Responses Responses Student: Throughout the whole reading I sat there in a WTF stupor. Ong’s writing is very paradoxical, using an alien technology of writing to describe that writing is bad, but then saying that since writing is apart … Continue reading

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ENG 319 5.T: Lanham (and maybe some other stuff)

Today’s Plan: Any thoughts on the paper? Lanham, Carter, Sullivan For Next Class Lanham, Carter, and Sullivan Let’s talk and review. For Next Class First, a number of y’all have already read Jim Corder’s “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love.” … Continue reading

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ENG 319 4.R: Questions and Teams

Today’s Plan: Canvas “Quiz” #1 Canvas “Quiz” #2 Questions Jarratt Corder For Next Class Your Questions Papers: Invention I think that the papers should also address specific types of rhetoric and their intentions. I would like to better understand each … Continue reading

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ENG 319 4.T: Isocrates and Civic Rhetoric

Today’s Plan: Paper Questions Isocrates Exercise For Next Class Paper Questions From the syllabus: Our first project will ask you to synthesize the first 8 weeks of readings into a definition paper of 1800 to 2000 words. From a previous … Continue reading

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ENG 319 R: Aristotle, Take 2

Today’s Plan: Key passages in Books 2 and 3 (10 minutes) Halloran article (15 minutes) A (Fun?) Rhetorical Exercise (50 minutes) For Next Class A (Fun?) Rhetorical Exercise A major claim of Gorgias (or at least one attributed to him) … Continue reading

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ENG 319 3.T: Aristotle, Enthymeme, and Rhetoric

Today’s Plan: Aristotle On Rhetoric, Book One Questions: 1.1.1-6: What is Rhetoric? Why Study it? What should we be wary of? See also 1.2.7. 1.1.7-10: Aristotle’s suspicions regarding rhetoric and other handbooks 1.1.11-13: Another perspective on why rhetoric is necessary. … Continue reading

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ENG 319 2.R: Cavarero and McComiskey

Today’s Plan: Cavarero (30 minutes) McComiskey (15 minutes) Free Write Time (10 minutes) For Next Class (10 minutes) Cavarero I’d like to try something. What is a question that you think I should ask you about Cavarero? What type of … Continue reading

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