Daily Schedule: Week 3
Monday, June 5Print, read, and notate:
From William Covino's Elements of Persuasion, Chapter 1, "Grammars of Persuasion": pages 1-12.
Jack Selzer’s “Rhetorical Analysis: Understanding How Texts Persuade Readers.” What Writing Does: 279-291 and 304-306 (Appendix A: "Education" by E.B. White).
These texts will provide us with a basic methodology (and vocabulary) to evaluate texts rhetorically. Focus on "textual analysis" in the Selzer text (279-291) and read the essay Selzer analyzes (E. B. White's "On Education" 304-306) in the appendix to his chapter. Print, read, and notate:
Holcomb and Killingsworth Performing Prose: Chapter 6, "Tropes"; Chapter 7 "Schemes." Also read: Chuck Palahniuk's "Nuts and Bolts" article from Lit Reactor. I will be using this article to demonstrate rhetorical analysis. Be prepared to do in-class writing using this article. Review this webpage for instructions for writing this third mini-analysis, as well as for guidance in providing commentary for your group members. |
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Tuesday, June 6Harris "Writing With Style and Clarity" (Restatememt)
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Wednesday, June 7
Print, read, and notate:
James Seitz. "A Rhetoric of Reading." From Rebirth of Rhetoric: Essays in Language, Culture & Education. Ed. Richard Andrews. 1992.
Peter Rabinowitz. "Truth in Fiction: A Reexamination of Audiences." Critical Inquiry. 1977.
Here is a sample audience analysis using Rabinowitz.
James Seitz. "A Rhetoric of Reading." From Rebirth of Rhetoric: Essays in Language, Culture & Education. Ed. Richard Andrews. 1992.
Peter Rabinowitz. "Truth in Fiction: A Reexamination of Audiences." Critical Inquiry. 1977.
Here is a sample audience analysis using Rabinowitz.
Thursday, June 8Presentations and workshop fourth mini-analysis.
Bring a clean rubric for your peers to evaluate your mini-analysis. |
For further study:
As an overview of issues of audience in the teaching of writing, read Ryder, Vander Lei, Roen. "Audience Considerations for Evaluating Writing." From Evaluating Writing. Ed. Charles Cooper and Lee Odell. 1999. James Phelan's "Introduction" to his book Living to Tell About It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration. |