Homework Due Wednesday, Feb 5

BRING: Your textbook Everything is an Argument

Homework

            Reading:

·         EA Chapter 6: “Rhetorical Analysis”

·         ISU Student Guide pgs. 76-80

            Writing: On your blog, write the equivalent of 1 double-spaced page telling about one time that you used rhetorical analysis, even though you probably didn't realize what you were doing.

          I expect these to be great, lively examples that we will pull up on our laptops and look at in class, so have fun with them!

           Some of you have asked for more creative space. This is your chance. Write me a short story---as long as you include the elements that make it obvious to any reader that you were analyzing rhetorically. 

          Others of you detest creative writing. I'm okay with that. You  may write your situation in an analytical way, if it suits you better. It could read like a police or some other report. List the persons involved, their positions or relation to each other, then describe what happened, what you did, and why. Remember this bit of advice my fire chief gave me when I was a new EMT: you will get called to court to testify at some point, about your actions. If what you did isn't on the paper, it didn't happen. Make it concise and impossible to misunderstand, but put in the important details--the ones that will save your tail later.

Thanks for your lively participation today, everyone. It was great! If rhetoric every threatens to overwhelm you, remember the paper fight in class, and how every one of you displayed wonderful knowledge of how to rhetorically analyze. Even for those points about me that weren't quite accurate, the basis for them was sound.