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/ENGL425w02/index.html. You are responsible for all changes announced in class.

Date	Day	Assignments Due
January 7	Monday	First day of class. Welcome and Introductions.
January 9	Wednesday	Introduction to Rhetoric, Rhetoric(s), and Ideology. Pages 1-20.
January 14	Monday	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).
January 16	Wednesday	Definition as Argument. Pages 214-228.
January 21	Monday	15th Annual University of Michigan Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium. Instead of attending class, please attend at least one MLK Symposium event!
January 23	Wednesday	Definition as Argument, Definition Tactics. Sentence Arrangement. Exercise #1, page 227-228 (typed but in note form).
January 28	Monday	Definition as Argument. Sentence Arrangement Exercise.
January 30	Wednesday	No Class.
February 4	Monday	Definition as Argument. Invention Worksheet for Paper #1 due.
February 6	Wednesday	Delivery. Pages 275-289. Have you stopped by to chat during office hours yet?
February 11	Monday	Draft Workshop. Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #1 due.
February 13	Wednesday	The Stases. Paper #1 due.
February 18	Monday	The Stases. Analysis of an Issue due. Bring a magazine to class.
February 20	Wednesday	The Common Topics. Pages 183-197. Exercise #3, page 197.
February 25	Monday	Spring Break: No Class.
February 27	Wednesday	Spring Break: No Class.
March 4	Monday	The Stases and the Common Topics. Audience Analysis. Invention Exercise due.
March 6	Wednesday	Review, Paper Topics. Mid-semester evaluation of the course.
March 11	Monday	Ethos and Ethical Proofs. Pages 105-145. Modified Version of Exercise #1, page 145.
March 13	Wednesday	Ethos and Ethical Appeals. Modified Version of Exercise #5, page 145.
March 18	Monday	Draft Workshop. Review the Issues and Strategies. Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #2 due.
March 20	Wednesday	What About the Opposition? Refuting, Conceding, and Bridging. Paper #2 due.
March 25	Monday	What About the Opposition?
March 27	Wednesday	Style. Sentence Emphasis. Logical Fallacies. Pages 229-263. Scholarship Exercise due.
April 1	Monday	Arrangement. Pages 198-213. Exercise #2, page 213.
April 3	Wednesday	Style. More Lines of Argument. Modified Version of Exercise #4, page 263.
April 8	Monday	Invention and Other Exercises for the Final Paper.
April 10	Wednesday	Writing Strategies and the Final Paper. Modified Version of Exercise #1, page 213.
April 15	Monday	Draft Workshop. Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #3 due.
April 17	Wednesday	Last day of class. Paper #3 due.

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