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 :

dis­cus­sion threads (with prompts)
• Sec­tion 015 (pass­word pro­tected)
• Sec­tion 021 (pass­word pro­tected)

 
→ 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)… 

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