Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

Project 2: Rhetorical Analysis Webtext

up­com­ing:
Ex­er­cise 2: An­no­tated Bib­li­og­ra­phy (due 21-Feb)
Ex­er­cise 3: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis (due 27-Feb)

Week 6

M 15-Feb Read: Homes (2015), “Be care­ful, your love of sci­ence looks a lot like re­li­gion” Quartz​.com
+ bring reading/text from an­other class (in your ma­jor)

• fo­cus: as­sump­tions (or “givens”) of your dis­ci­pline?
  → ex­am­ple “Sci­en­tism” and/in the In­for­ma­tion Par­a­digm
   
• re­view: An­no­tated Bib­li­og­ra­phy ob­jec­tives & process (Project 2 Ex­er­cise)
  — work on this all week
  (con­tinue search, browse, com­pile since Fri­day: on­line source/s for ex­pert info and/or com­mu­ni­ca­tion? plus texts rep­re­sen­ta­tive of field) → dis­cuss ben­e­fits of brows­ing (vs. search­ing)
• question/topic (for Project): what is “re­search” in your field?
  — con­tin­ued topics/questions: defin­ing In­for­ma­tion, Knowl­edge, Ex­per­tise, Ar­gu­ment, Ev­i­dence

» CU Li­braries — Find Ar­ti­cles / Browse Data­bases

• re­source: An­no­tated Bib­li­og­ra­phy page @ Pur­due OWL

W 17-Feb hy­brid work :

• re­search (search/browse schol­arly data­bases) and read for A-Bib
   
• dur­ing class time: post brief com­ment & re­ply about re­search process & sources (found and seek­ing)
  → see prompts be­low

F 19-Feb Dis­cuss: “dis­course com­mu­ni­ties,” dis­ci­pline con­ven­tions (rhetorical/written), sit­u­ated knowledge/information

• Links be­low (op­tional re­sources; not re­quired read­ing)
   
• ac­tiv­ity: A-Bib re­view & warm-up
  prepa­ra­tion: have/bring schol­arly ar­ti­cles (from re­search)

» due (02−21) Ex­er­cise 2: An­no­tated Bib­li­og­ra­phy

—project 2 warm-up (3 schol­arly sources; 5 points)
In­struc­tions Page — post in D2L

look­ing ahead: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis of one se­lected ar­ti­cle (Mon­day ac­tiv­ity)