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Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the date listed. Page numbers refer to Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. Exercises accompanying The Everyday Writer will be announced in class or assigned individually.
Please note that this schedule of assignments is subject to change. Changes will be announced in class and posted on the course website, http://www.umich.edu/~alisse/ENGL425f02/index.html. You are responsible for all changes announced in class.
| Date | Day | Assignments Due | |||||||||
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| September 4 | Wednesday | First day of class. Welcome and Introductions. | |||||||||
| September 9 | Monday |
Introduction to Rhetoric, Rhetoric(s), and Ideology. Pages 1-20. | |||||||||
| September 11 | Wednesday |
Kairos, the Rhetorical Situation, and Exigence. Pages 30-43. Exercise #2, page 103 and Exercise #4, page 19 (through C for one issue, one to two pages in length). | |||||||||
| September 16 | Monday |
Definition as Argument. Pages 214-228. | |||||||||
| September 18 | Wednesday |
Definition as Argument, Definition Tactics. Sentence Arrangement and Logical Relations. Exercise #1, page 227-228 (typed but in note form). | |||||||||
| September 23 | Monday |
Definition as Argument. Sentence Arrangement Exercise. Invention Worksheet for Paper #1 due. | |||||||||
| September 25 | Wednesday |
Delivery. Pages 275-289. Have you stopped by to chat during office hours yet? | |||||||||
| September 30 | Monday |
Draft Workshop. Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #1 due. | |||||||||
| October 2 | Wednesday |
The Stases. Paper #1 due. Bring a magazine to class. | |||||||||
| October 7 | Monday |
The Stases. Pages 44-73. Modified Version of Exercise #2, page 73. | |||||||||
| October 9 | Wednesday |
The Common Topics. Pages 183-197. Exercise #3, page 197. | |||||||||
| October 14 | Monday | No Class: Fall Break. | |||||||||
| October 16 | Wednesday |
The Stases and the Common Topics. Mid-semester evaluation of the course. | |||||||||
| October 21 | Monday |
Lines of Argument. | |||||||||
| October 23 | Wednesday |
Logical Fallacies. Invention Exercise due. | |||||||||
| October 28 | Monday |
Ethos and Ethical Proofs. Pages 105-145. Modified Version of Exercise #1, page 144. | |||||||||
| October 30 | Wednesday |
Ethos and Ethical Appeals. Modified Version of Exercise #5, page 144. | |||||||||
| November 4 | Monday |
Draft Workshop. Review the Issues and Strategies. Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #2 due. | |||||||||
| November 6 | Wednesday |
What About the Opposition? Refuting, Conceding, and Bridging. Paper #2 due. | |||||||||
| November 11 | Monday |
What About the Opposition? Figures of Speech. Pages 332-37. "Dealing with the Opposition/MLK" Exercise due. | |||||||||
| November 13 | Wednesday |
Style. Sentence Emphasis. Pages 229-263. Scholarship Exercise due. | |||||||||
| November 18 | Monday |
Arrangement. Pages 198-213. Modified Version of Exercise #2, page 213. | |||||||||
| November 20 | Wednesday |
Style. Modified Version of Exercise #4, page 263. | |||||||||
| November 25 | Monday | Invention and Other Exercises for the Final Paper. | |||||||||
| November 27 | Wednesday | No Class: Thanksgiving Break. | |||||||||
| December 2 | Monday |
Writing Strategies and the Final Paper. Modified Version of Exercise #1, page 213 December 4 | Wednesday |
Writing Strategies and Exercises.
| December 9 | Monday |
Draft Workshop. | Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #3 due. December 11 | Wednesday |
Last day of class. | Paper #3 due. |
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