Persuasive Writing | English 425, Section 2 Fall 2007 Professor Alisse Portnoy Email Address: alisse@umich.edu |
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September | October | November | December |
Date | Day | Topics for Discussion and Assignments Due |
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September 5 | Wednesday | First day of class. |
September 7 | Friday | Introduction to Rhetoric, Rhetoric(s), and Ideology. |
September 12 | 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 14 | Friday | Definition as Argument. Pages 239-56. |
September 19 | Wednesday | Definition as Argument. |
September 21 | 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 emailed definition readings. |
September 26 | Wednesday | Definition as Argument. |
September 28 | Friday | Delivery. Pages 330-52. |
October 3 | Wednesday | Draft Workshop. Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #1 due. |
October 5 | Friday | The Stases. Paper #1 due. Bring two magazines to class. |
October 10 | Wednesday | The Stases. |
October 12 | Friday | Extrinsic Proofs. Pages 220-38. Exercise #2, page 237. |
October 17 | Wednesday | Common Topics and Commonplaces. Pages 95-132. |
October 19 | Friday | Stases, Common Topics, Commonplaces. |
October 24 | Wednesday | Ethos and Ethical Appeals. |
October 26 | Friday | Ethos and Ethical Appeals. Modified Version of Exercise #4, page 203. |
October 31 | Wednesday | Pathos and Pathetic Appeals. Pages 205-19. Modified Version of Exercise #1, page 218. |
November 2 | Friday | Pathos and Pathetic Appeals. Citations, Citation Formats. Values and Beliefs Exercise. |
November 7 | Wednesday | Draft Workshop. Review the Issues and Strategies. Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #2 due. |
November 9 | Friday | What about the Opposition? Refuting, Conceding, and Bridging. |
November 14 | Wednesday | What about the Opposition? Figures of Speech. Pages 396-401. King and the Opposition Exercise due. Read and bring a copy of the emailed/online reading to class. |
November 16 | Friday | Style. Sentence Emphasis, Sentence Combining. Pages 278-315. Scholarship Exercise due. |
November 21 | Wednesday | No Class: Thanksgiving. |
November 23 | Friday | No Class: Thanksgiving. |
November 28 | Wednesday | Arrangement. |
November 30 | 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 5 | Wednesday | Writing Strategies and the Third Paper. |
December 7 | Friday | Draft Workshop. Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #3 due. |
December 11 | TUESDAY | Paper #3 due by 4:00 pm in Alisse's office, 3236 Angell Hall. |
September | October | November | December |
MRU: 4 September 2007