Homework due Before Class Wednesday, 2-19-14

Change in due dates on textual rhetorical analysis!!!!

Full draft, due for peer review in class on Monday, Feb 24th. This is a LOT of time, so I expect your assignment to be complete--as good as you can get it! Ready to turn in--except you have this added benefit of your peers seeing what they catch that might make it better. Take it to the Writing Center before that if you want--that helps.

Final Draft, due on  your blog before class time Wednesday, Feb 26th.



HOMEWORK

Action:

1) Choose an article to rhetorically analyze

2) Post the whole thing to your blog before class on Wednesday


   Criteria:

• The article must have something to do with your field. 

• As you think about your research paper later in this class, try to pick something that you can use in your paper.

• It can be any genre from instructions to a long series of emails trying to sort out a problem (they have to be actual emails, don't make them up), to children's stories trying to get kids involved in your field--or anything else!

In Class on Wednesday:

   

•       Talk with your peers about what rhetorical frame you are going to use to analyze the article            
• See below--remember our discussion in class. Look up "Rhetoric" in your book if you need help. Remember page 127-128. Listen to the author before you dig into  trying to explain the point of what they're saying, why they needed to say it, and what they were trying to accomplish with it.  You don't have to use every rhetorical frame--if you have enough material to do it, go deeply into something narrow. Find stuff the rest of us wouldn't see from just reading the article. Research outside the article to find out more about its context. 

•       Talk about what structure you might use to write your analysis

•        Start writing your textual rhetorical analysis assignment! yes in class. Unless your sub has something else for you to do. :-)

• Refer to the textual rhetorical analysis assignment posted on this blog. The prompt is meant to help you know what to look for, and what to write.

NOTE: 

Rhetoric is hard, I love discussing it! Feel free to email me questions--or better yet, post them on our "Let's Talk!" page so we can all join in the fun!

Think of the following as frames through which to see deeper into the text you are analyzing. The top one, as you recall, is what many people use to talk about rhetoric, in addition to ethos, pathos, and logos. The second one is a more modern take on rhetoric--or, if you look closely, just another way to state the first list.

Traditional Rhetorical Canon

·     Invention

·     Arrangement

·     Style

·     Memory

·     Delivery

All Writing Is:

·     Motivated

·     Situated

·     Contingent

·     Interactive

·     Epistemic