Category Archives: rhetoric

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 420 2.2: Cicero’s Orator

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

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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 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 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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College Comp 8.1: Logos

Today’s Plan: Attendance Flu shot? Workshop Volunteers Logos Homework Logos I want to do a presentation today on logos, the rhetorical term for forms of proof. Homework I want you to argue in favor of a statistic this week. Frame … Continue reading

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College Comp 6.3: Workshopping

Today’s Plan: Attendance Friday Night Speaker Series Duffett, Ideology, Participatory Culture Workshopping (Maddison and Ryan) Homework Duffett Quiz Questions First, the quiz questions: In what ways have academics traditionally understood fandom? Provide at least two perspectives. (Adorno vs. Jenkins: What … Continue reading

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Advanced Composition: Peer Review

Today’s Plan: Peer Review Today I’ll be asking you to read and respond to each other’s work. Peer review isn’t simply copyediting; at this point, my concern isn’t with grammatical correctness as much as with argumentative structure and supplying a … Continue reading

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Advanced Composition 12.1: Summarizing Research

Today’s Plan: A few heuristics Summarize an article Homework

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Visual Rhetoric Week 9 (Friday): Book Production Presentation

Today’s Plan : Book Cover and Jacket Book Production Presentation Book Production Project Rubric Garr Reynolds and Presentation Zen Design Canvas assignment: Make a Zen Presentation Hand back posters Work Time Homework Book Cover and Jacket Today I wanted to … Continue reading

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