Monthly Archives: January 2017

ENG 123 4.1: Topic Exploration Paper

Today’s Plan: Attendance Review Topic Exploration Paper Booth Exercise Working Knowledge Assignment Review Topic Exploration Assignment The first major assignment, the Topic Exploration Assignment, is due tomorrow at 11:59pm. This paper should be 500-600 words. Note that this assignment passes … Continue reading

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ENG 420 3.1: Lanham

Today’s Plan Attendance Summer Research Applications Review Last Class Articles Lanham’s Strong Defense Discussion Post

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ENG 123 2.2: Topic Worksheet #1

Today’s Plan: Review Google Drive Questions Topic Worksheet #1 In-class Research Homework

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ENG 420 2.2: Cicero’s Orator

Today’s Plan : Review Sir Ken Robinson Faulty Foundations Cicero Homework

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ENG 123 2.1: Principles of Academic Writing / Topic Worksheet

Today’s Plan: Attendance Review Last Class Review Chapters 17 and 6 Discussion of “Where the Wild Things Should Be” Topic Exploration Assignment

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ENG 420 2.1: Isocrates and Civic Education

Today’s Plan Attendance Review Last Class Two Readings: Salon and Breitbart Haskins and Benoit Homework Review Last Class Looking through your posts: Essentialism vs. Materialism Plato’s Elitism vs. Socrates’ insistence to Question Everything Plato’s Transcendentalism (Epistemology, knowledge) Two Readings As … Continue reading

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ENG 1.2: Logos, Ethos, Pathos, Stasis, Kairos

Today’s plan: Attendance Reviewing Last Class (Did you set up Google Drive?) Structuring an Argumentative Essay Elements of an Argument: Logos, Ethos, and Pathos Types of Arguments Kairos (Situating an Argument) Homework Structuring An Argumentative Essay Argumentative essays can be … Continue reading

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ENG 420 1.2: Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

Today’s Plan: Attendance Blog URL’s in Canvas Entry Question: Should Schools Teach Morality Reviewing Plato Reading Philosophy’s hero and Rhetoric’s villain Homework Discussion Post Time Blog URL’s in Canvas For Tuesday’s homework, I asked you to create a blog and … Continue reading

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ENG 123: 1.1 Course Introduction

Today’s Plan: Three Questions Strong Bad Syllabus and Canvas Google Drive A Brisk Walk Homework Three Questions Let’s break the ice. Question One: What is one piece of indie/popular culture that everyone should be experiencing? Question Two: What is one … Continue reading

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ENG 420 1.1: Introduction and Plato

Today’s plan: Why Are You Here? Syllabus and Canvas Introduction to Plato, Greek Conceptions of Philosophy and Rhetoric Writing with Direct Quotations Homework

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