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ENG 276: INTRODUCTION TO RHETORIC

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Texts

Brummett, Barry. Rhetoric in Popular Culture. 2d ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2006 .

Ball, Cheryl E. and Kristin L. Arola. ix Visual Exercises. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004.

Class handouts and online resources as assigned

Resources

Rhetorical figures
Oxford Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
fun with words
logos, ethos and pathos
handbook of rhetorical devices
aristotle?s rhetoric
silva rhetorica
rhetoric and composition references
Cicero on genres of rhetoric
coalition of women scholars in the history of rhetoric and composition

Week One
	Topic	Assignment due today	Other
1.4	Introduction to course Overview of culture
Week Two
	Topic	Assignment	Other
1.09		Read Brummett, Chapter 1; write out a response to Ex.1.1 (6-7).	To focus your reading in Brummett, look at the section headings first, then the Summary and Review at the end of the chapter, before you read the assignment.
1.11		Review Brummett; write out a response to Ex.1.7 (36). Read Williams' definitions of "culture," "popular." Write a paragraph in which you update Williams' definitions (last revised in 1983) to create your own, current definitions.	Quiz #1 to take home EVENT - talk on politics/rhetoric of immigration by Elvin Lim, political science candidate - O-147, 12:05
Week Three
	Topic	Assignment	Other
1.16	Classical rhetoric	Quiz #1 DUE. Read Brummett, first part Chapter 2 (40-63); read Plato, selection from Phaedrus here.	Greece: Sophists, Plato, Aristotle EVENT - talk on copyright and fair use by Tricia Davis and Dan Mayo from OSU-Columbus - B-117, noon
1.18	Coming to terms	Read Brummett, second part Chapter 2 (63-89). Find and bring to class a definition of rhetoric attributable to an individual and the source of the definition (no dictionary or general encylopaedia sources, please) Read King, "I Have a Dream" (handout)	King/Oratory Topoi Rome: Cicero, Quintilian, stasis theory 2d hour - rhetoric resources on the web
Week Four
	Topic	Assignment	Other
1.23		Read Brummett, Chapter 3 (90-136).	Getting down to cases - what does it mean to be rhetorically critical? critically rhetorical? Quiz #2
1.25		Continue discussion of Brummett, Chapter 3. Test review.
Week Five
	Topic	Assignment	Other
1.30		No class Attend " From Crime Scene to Courtroom," 7 pm, Health Science Auditorium
2.1		Read Brummett, first part Chapter 4 (148-160). Assign Rhetorical Analysis and Rhetorical Artifact (pdf here)	Test #1 (second hour)
Week Six
	Topic	Assignment	Other
2.6		Read Brummett, second part Chapter 4 (171-188).	Where are the women (and other non-white, non-able-bodied, non-heterosexual, non-Western, non-Christian people)? Develop rubric for rhetorical analysis Meet in computer classroom (second hour) to work with Ball and Arola's ix: visual exercises
2.8		Read Waggenspeck, "Women's Role in Rhetorical Traditions" and "Women Emerge as Speakers: Nineteenth-Centruy Transformations of Women's Role in the Public Arena" (class handout) Class meets 9:55-11 Class resumes 12:05-12:55 in Eisenhower Student Union to hear Jacqueline Royster speak on African American Women: 19th Century Legacies
Week Seven
	Topic	Assignment	Other
2.13		Read Brummett, last part Chapter 4 (189-214). Rhetorical analysis workshop	Placing ourselves in rhetoric; the privilege of perspective
2.15		Rhetorical analysis workshop	Meet in computer classroom Test #2 (second hour)
Week Eight
	Topic	Assignment	Other
2.20		Draft of rhetorical analysis DUE.	Peer writing workshop
2.22		Rhetorical artifact workshop	Meet in computer classroom Develop rubric for rhetorical artifact
Week Nine
	Topic	Assignment	Other
2.27		Studio work
3.1		Putting analysis to work Introducing the book (metaphor) Herding cats (metonymy) Project(RED) Smoking Studio work	Meet in computer classroom (O-251)
Week Ten
	Topic	Assignment	Other
3.6	Presentation	Putting rhetoric to work JetBlue and a rhetoric of recovery Class evaluations
3.8	Presentation	Putting on the show Assessment of Rhetorical Artifacts project
Exam Week
3.13	Final exam time FINAL version of Rhetorical Artifact DUE by 1 p.m. FINAL revision of Rhetorical Analysis also DUE by 1 p.m.