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Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

Project 2: Rhetorical Analysis Webtext

  • due 25-Oct (Reflec­tion due 26-Oct)

 
Week 9

M 10/19   Project Work­shop:

  • review: objec­tives, top­ics, strategies
     
  • Activity/focus: orga­ni­za­tion, arrangement/sections, outline
     
  • Pur­due OWL — Outlines
  • next steps: map/outline top­ics; begin drafting 

 
 
W 10/21   hybrid work :

  • Draft project sec­tions (web­text pages)
    → con­sult Design Guide page (if only before Fri­day workshop)

     

  • optional/bonus par­tic­i­pa­tion: dis­cuss (in brief com­ment below) rhetor­i­cal & com­pos­ing strate­gies for draft — espe­cially sections/topics (ratio­nale), address­ing imag­ined audi­ence, help­ful resources con­sulted, etc. 

 
 
F 10/23   Project Work­shop:

  • Web­text Draft due
    → for class activ­ity & peer review
     
    » Peer Review Guide — Google Doc
  • Focus: arrange­ment (text + media, pages), ana­lytic style, audi­ence considerations
     
    → also, web design (Wee­bly, Google Sites, Word­Press) strate­gies & dig­i­tal media troubleshoot/tech-support
     
  • Look­ing ahead: peer feed­back (VoiceThread memo optional for­mat) and revising/finalizing 

 
Project 2: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis Webtext

  • Final ver­sion due 26-Oct (web­text pub­lished: post link on blog) 
  • Com­pos­ing sum­mary + Reflec­tion due 27-Oct 

 



 
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Rhetorical Analysis

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Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

Project 2: Rhetorical Analysis Webtext

    warm-up exer­cises:
  • Anno­tated Bib­li­og­ra­phy due Sat 03-Oct
  • Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis exer­cise due Sat 10-Oct

 
Week 7

M 10/05   Activ­ity: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis of selected article/source (from A-Bib)

  • focus: gen­er­at­ing insights and ideas for Project 2 through analysis
    → see guide PDF & page @ Silva Rhetor­i­cae
     
    *use arti­cle from A-Bib, or choose another for exercise
     
  • dis­cuss: stages, process, time­line for Project
     
  • con­tin­ued top­ics: iden­ti­fy­ing & defin­ing defin­ing Infor­ma­tion, Knowl­edge, Exper­tise, “Research,” Argu­ment, Evidence/Proof in field/discipline
    → “dis­course com­mu­ni­ties” & rhetorical/written conventions 

 
 
W 10/07   hybrid work :

 
→ con­tinue “step 1″ of rhetor­i­cal analy­sis through/for Friday…

 
 
F 10/02   Activ­ity: Exer­cise warm-up 

  • review/discuss: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis objec­tives and strategies
    → tran­si­tion from ideas from analy­sis to pre­sent­ing crit­i­cal points for response (group/connect top­i­cally, with con­cise exam­ples and fram­ing language).
     
    plus, if time: iden­ti­fy­ing types of argument 
  • progress toward project: dis­cuss obser­va­tions about con­ven­tions, dis­course com­mu­nity, type/s of knowl­edge, and “infor­ma­tion par­a­digm” (worldview)… 

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    » due (10−10) Exer­cise 3: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis (of 1 schol­arly article)

     
     

     

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Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

Project 2: Rhetorical Analysis Webtext

    → reminder: Project 1 Video (19-Sep) and Sum­mary (20-Sep) due

 
Week 5

M 9/21   Dis­cuss: Project 1 out­comes, Unit 2 goals, Web­text project

  • focus: insights from video about belief-story mode (for reflec­tion blog entry);
    about public/social genre/mode — audi­ence — cir­cu­la­tion (pub­lish to site/social media?)
  • new unit topic In-class writ­ing — sketch of your major/field (initial/current view of dis­ci­pline, infor­ma­tion, spe­cial­ized discourse)

 
Blog Entry 2: Project 1 Reflection

  • 200 words, infor­mal; due T 9/22
    — no class­mate com­ment required this time
  • sug­gested: share your video online (your choice) for more spe­cific dis­cus­sions of public/social con­ven­tions, audi­ence, circulation

 
 
W 9/23   hybrid work :

  • watch Unit Overview Video
  • share ini­tial “Field Sketch” (brief list + media)
    and online source in/for your dis­ci­pline (find + follow)
    — class­mate com­ment optional
     
  • prepa­ra­tion for Fri­day (use time Wed): iden­tify representative/recent read­ing & assign­ment from your major (another course) — to bring/reference in dis­cus­sion next class

 
 
F 9/25   Dis­cuss: Ouel­lette, “Veni, Vidi, Wiki: Exper­tise as Knowl­edge and a Tech­no­cratic Gen­er­a­tion” Recon­struc­tion 10.2 (2010)

  • Focus: “exper­tise,” rhetor­i­cal con­ven­tions, & “infor­ma­tion” of (your) field
    — use/reference major-course reading/book and assign­ment as examples
     
  • look­ing ahead: begin compiling/browsing (research) for Anno­tated Bib­li­og­ra­phy (due 10/03) — first exercise/component of Project 2