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/ENGL425w03/index.html. You are responsible for all changes announced in class.

Date	Day	Assignments Due
January 6	Monday	First day of class. Welcome and Introductions.
January 8	Wednesday	Introduction to Rhetoric, Rhetoric(s), and Ideology. Pages 1-20.
January 13	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 15	Wednesday	Definition as Argument. Pages 214-228.
January 20	Monday	16th Annual University of Michigan Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium. Instead of attending class, please attend at least one MLK Symposium event!
January 22	Wednesday	Definition as Argument, Definition Tactics. Sentence Arrangement and Logical Relations. Exercise #1, page 227-228 (typed but in note form). Definition Readings.
January 27	Monday	Definition as Argument. Sentence Arrangement Exercise. Invention Worksheet for Paper #1 due.
January 29	Wednesday	Delivery. Pages 275-289. Have you stopped by to chat during office hours yet?
February 3	Monday	Draft Workshop. Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #1 due.
February 5	Wednesday	The Stases. Paper #1 due. Bring a magazine to class.
February 10	Monday	The Stases. Pages 44-73. Exercise #1, page 73.
February 12	Wednesday	The Common Topics. Pages 183-197. Exercise #3, page 197.
February 17	Monday	Lines of Argument. Logical Fallacies.
February 19	Wednesday	Stases, Common Topics, Lines of Argument, Logical Fallacies, Commonplaces. Mid-semester evaluation of the course. Invention Exercies due.
February 24	Monday	Spring Break: No Class.
February 26	Wednesday	Spring Break: No Class.
March 3	Monday	Ethos and Ethical Appeals. Pages 105-145. Modified Version of Exercise #1, page 144. MLK's Letter from Birmingham City Jail (PDF format, 552 KB). (Be sure to read the "Letter to Dr. King" on page 5 before reading King's response.)
March 5	Wednesday	Ethos and Ethical Appeals. Modified Version of Exercise #5, page 144.
March 10	Monday	Pathos and Pathetic Appeals. Pages 146-161. Modified Version of Exercise #1, page 160.
March 12	Wednesday	Pathos and Pathetic Appeals. Values and Beliefs Exercise.
March 17	Monday	Draft Workshop. Review the Issues and Strategies. Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #2 due.
March 19	Wednesday	What About the Opposition? Refuting, Conceding, and Bridging. Paper #2 due. Bring Ariel Dorfman's "The Urge to Help" (PDF format, 104 KB) to class.
March 24	Monday	What About the Opposition? Figures of Speech. Pages 332-37. King and the Opposition Exercise due. Read and bring a copy of Robert C. Byrd's Senate Remarks from 2/12/03 (PDF format, 60 KB) to class.
March 26	Wednesday	Style. Sentence Emphasis. Pages 229-263. Scholarship Exercise due.
March 31	Monday	Arrangement. Pages 198-213. Modified Version of Exercise #2, page 213.
April 2	Wednesday	Style. Modified Version of Exercise #4, page 263.
April 7	Monday	Invention and Other Exercises for the Final Paper.
April 9	Wednesday	Writing Strategies and the Final Paper. Modified Version of Exercise #1, page 213.
April 14	Monday	Draft Workshop. Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #3 due.
April 16	Wednesday	Last day of class. Paper #3 due.

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