Persuasive Writing |
English 425, Section 02 |
Schedule of Assignments • Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the date listed. |
September | October | November | December |
Date | Day | Topics for Discussion and Assignments Due |
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September 6 | Wednesday | First day of class. |
September 8 | Friday | Introduction to Rhetoric, Rhetoric(s), and Ideology. |
September 13 | Wednesday | Kairos, the Rhetorical Situation, and Exigence. Pages 36-52. Modified Versions of Exercise #2, pages 130-31 and Exercise #4, pages 33-35. |
September 15 | Friday | Definition as Argument. Pages 239-56. |
September 20 | Wednesday | Definition as Argument. |
September 22 | Friday | Definition as Argument, Definition Tactics. Sentence Arrangement and Logical Relations. Exercise #1, pages 255-56 (typed but in note form). Read and bring to class online definition readings. |
September 27 | Wednesday | Definition as Argument. Sentence Arrangement Exercise. Invention Worksheet for Paper #1 due. Have you stopped by to chat during office hours yet? |
September 29 | Friday | Delivery. Pages 330-52. |
October 4 | Wednesday | Draft Workshop. Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #1 due. |
October 6 | Friday | The Stases. Paper #1 due. Bring two magazines to class. |
October 11 | Wednesday | The Stases. |
October 13 | Friday | The Common Topics. Pages 220-38. Exercise #2, page 237. |
October 18 | Wednesday | Common Topics and Commonplaces. Pages 95-132. |
October 20 | Friday | Stases, Common Topics, Commonplaces. |
October 25 | Wednesday | Ethos and Ethical Appeals. |
October 27 | Friday | Ethos and Ethical Appeals. Modified Version of Exercise #4, page 203. |
November 1 | Wednesday | Pathos and Pathetic Appeals. Pages 205-19. Modified Version of Exercise #1, page 218. |
November 3 | Friday | Pathos and Pathetic Appeals. Values and Beliefs Exercise. |
November 8 | Wednesday | Draft Workshop. Review the Issues and Strategies. Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #2 due. |
November 10 | Friday | What about the Opposition? Refuting, Conceding, and Bridging. |
November 15 | Wednesday | What about the Opposition? Figures of Speech. Pages 396-401. King and the Opposition Exercise due. Read and bring a copy of the online reading to class. |
November 17 | Friday | Style. Sentence Emphasis. Pages 278-315. Scholarship Exercise due. |
November 22 | Wednesday | Invention and Other Exercises for the Third Paper. |
November 24 | Friday | No Class: Thanksgiving. |
November 29 | Wednesday | Arrangement. |
December 1 | Friday | Style, Lines of Argument. More In-Class Exercises for the Third Paper. Modified Version of Exercise #5, page 314. Bring your notes and drafts for the third paper to class. |
December 6 | Wednesday | Writing Strategies and the Third Paper. |
December 8 | Friday | Draft Workshop. Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #3 due. |
December 13 | Wednesday | Last day of class. Paper #3 due. |
September | October | November | December |
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Most recent update: August 28, 2006.
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