Persuasive Writing English 425, Section 2
Fall 2007

Professor Alisse Portnoy
Email Address: alisse@umich.edu
English 425
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Schedule of Assignments

  • Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the date listed.
  • Page numbers refer to Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students, 3rd edition.
  • Please note that this schedule of assignments is subject to change. Changes will be announced in class and emailed to students registered for the course. You are responsible for all changes announced in class and/or distributed over email to your "umich" address.
September October November December

Date Day Topics for Discussion and Assignments Due
September 5 Wednesday

First day of class.
Welcome and introductions.

September 7 Friday

Introduction to Rhetoric, Rhetoric(s), and Ideology.
Pages 1-35.

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.
Emailed definition readings and exercises due.

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.
Logical Relations.
Audiences.
Introductions.
Invention Worksheet for Paper #1 due.
Have you stopped by to chat during office hours yet?

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.
Pages 53-94.
Exercise #1, page 92.

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.
Invention Exercise due.
Course Evaluation.

October 24 Wednesday

Ethos and Ethical Appeals.
Pages 163-204.
Modified Version of Exercise #1, page 202.
MLK's Letter from Birmingham City Jail.
(Be sure to read the "Letter to Dr. King" on page 5 before reading King's response.)

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.
Paper #2 due.
Bring the emailed/online reading to class.

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.
Logical Fallacies.
Pages 257-77.
Modified Version of Exercise #2, page 277.

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.
Modified Version of Exercise #1, pages 276-77.
Bring your notes and drafts for the third paper to class.

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