Professor Alisse Theodore
Email Address: alisse@umich.edu

Date	Day	Assignments Due
January 5	Wednesday	First day of class. Welcome and Introductions.
January 10	Monday	Introduction to Rhetoric, Rhetoric(s), and Ideology. Pages 1-20. Exercise #2, page 103 and Exercise #4, page 19 (through C for one issue, one to two pages in length).
January 12	Wednesday	Kairos, the Rhetorical Situation, and Exigence. Pages 30-43.
January 17	Monday	13th Annual University of Michigan Reverand Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium (a brief preview is on line; for the full three-week schedule, choose "Registered Events" on the Symposium website). Instead of a formal class session, attend at least one event scheduled for the MLK Symposium. Be sure to choose an event which gives you enough time to complete the exercise, and choose an event which will feature language (rather than, say, dance or visual arts). Use that event as the topic for the writing exercise due January 19.
January 19	Wednesday	Definition as Argument. Pages 214-228. Writing Exercise on MLK event due. Exercise #1, page 227-228 (typed but in note form).
January 24	Monday	Definition Tactics.
January 26	Wednesday	Definition as Argument, Definition Tactics. Invention Worksheet for Paper #1 due. Have you stopped by to chat during office hours yet?
January 31	Monday	Delivery. Pages 275-289. Typed, completed draft of Paper #1 due.
February 2	Wednesday	The Stases. Paper #1 due.
February 7	Monday	The Stases. Analysis of an Issue due.
February 9	Wednesday	The Common Topics. Pages 183-197. Exercise #3, page 197.
February 14	Monday	The Stases and the Common Topics. Invention Exercise due.
February 16	Wednesday	Review, Paper Topics
February 21	Monday	Ethos and Ethical Proofs. Pages 105-145. Modified Version of Exercise #1, page 145.
February 23	Wednesday	Ethos and Ethical Appeals. Modified Version of Exercise #5, page 145. Mid-semester evaluation of the course.
February 28	Monday	Spring Break: No Class.
March 1	Wednesday	Spring Break: No Class.
March 6	Monday	Draft Workshop, Review the Issues and Strategies. Typed, completed draft of Paper #2 due.
March 8	Wednesday	Writing Strategies. Paper #2 due.
March 13	Monday	Refuting, Conceding, and Bridging. Pages 332-337.
March 15	Wednesday	What About the Opposition? Confirmation/Refutation Exercise due.
March 20	Monday	Arrangement. Pages 198-213. Exercise #2, page 213.
March 22	Wednesday	Writing Strategies.
March 27	Monday	Style. Pages 229-263. Scholarship Exercise due.
March 29	Wednesday	Style. Modified Version of Exercise #4, page 263.
April 3	Monday	Invention and Other Exercises for Final Paper.
April 5	Wednesday	Writing Strategies and the Final Paper. Modified Version of Exercise #1, page 213.
April 10	Monday	Draft Workshop. Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #3 due.
April 12	Wednesday	Last day of class. Paper #3 due.

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