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ENG 231 1.T: What is Procedural Rhetoric?

Today’s Plan: Syllabus WTF is Rhetoric? Ian Bogost and Procedurality Homework WTF is(n’t) Rhetoric? Very soon I will ask you to conduct a rhetorical analysis of a video game. Which means you need some sense of what it means to … Continue reading

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ENG 231 3.W: Collaboratively Describing Procedural Rhetoric

Today’s Plan: Resources / Group Formation Read, Write, Transcribe for 20 minutes Synthesize and Discuss for 20 minutes As I indicated Monday, I want to spend some time today having you work in groups. Our goal is to try and … Continue reading

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ENG 231 3.M: Procedural Analysis Paper

Some Quick Journal Feedback Procedural Analysis Paper Academic Paper Crash Course Some Quick Journal Feedback Working through the rubric question on theme, one student wrote: The theme of the game is about choice. The narrator sets up a story in … Continue reading

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ENG 231 2.F: Catching Up, Moving On

Today’s Plan: Google Doc Contribution Issues / Make-Up Assignment Homework From A Rhetorical Triangle to a Ludic One Revised Procedural Rhetoric Heuristic Google Doc Contribution Issues / Make-Up Assignment I’ve scored the first assignment–I had a bit of an issue … Continue reading

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ENG 231 1.F: Defining Procedural Rhetoric (Con’t), Project 1 Preview, List of Games

Today’s Plan Project 1 Preview & List of Games for Project 1 (and maybe 2) Defining Procedural Rhetoric Homework Project 1 Preview The homework that I laid out on Wednesday–due next Monday–is to do a few practice runs with the … Continue reading

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ENG 231 1.W: Bogost, Custer, and Procedural Rhetorical Analysis

Today’s Plan: Defining Rhetoric Bogost Discussion Playing Some Games Homework Reviewing Last Class / Defining Rhetoric Last class I opened arguing by trying to confuse you a bit–the strategy here was to get you thinking in ways to which you … Continue reading

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ENG 231 1.M: Welcome, WTF is (Procedural) Rhetoric?

Today’s Plan: Syllabus WTF is Rhetoric? Ian Bogost and Procedurality Homework WTF is(n’t) Rhetoric? Very soon I will ask you to conduct a rhetorical analysis of a video game. Which means you need some sense of what it means to … Continue reading

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ENG 231 3.T: Reviewing Procedural Rhetoric (Again), [Academic] Paper Crash Course

Today’s Plan: Game Journals & Feedback Academic Paper Crash Course Any time remaining? Two Games Homework Game Journals & Feedback I’ve been checking in on the game journals–I think I got through about 1/2 of them yesterday. I tried to … Continue reading

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ENG 231 2.T/R: Nuts and Bolts of a Procedural Analysis

Reviewing Bogost Questions / Feedback Procedural Rhetoric: Identifying Mechanics To The Google Doc Let’s Play: Papers Please Homework: First Project, a Procedural Analysis Thursday Update I’ve gone through the ideas we developed on Tuesday for a procedural analysis and attempted … Continue reading

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ENG 231 1.R: Bogost, Procedurality /

Today’s Plan: Defining Rhetoric Bogost Discussion Playing Some Games Homework Defining Rhetoric One thing I forgot to do: circle back and “define” rhetoric (how Aristotelian, to singularly identify what some/thing “is”). Let me take a swing. I consider rhetoric as … Continue reading

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