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Today’s class serves as a review before we begin working with Modern rhetoric next week. First, we’ll explore potential research topics for the longer paper (discussion question on Canvas). Second, I want to hear about which articles you chose to … Continue reading →

In today’s class I will introduce our second project, which I have decided to term the “Affective Objects” project. This project will have two different stages. In stage one, we will read a series of texts. The purpose of such … Continue reading →

Today I want to do two things. First, I want to share the postmortem form for the first project so you have an idea of what kinds of questions I will ask you to consider as you finish the first … Continue reading →

Today we will focus on Isocrates–the final of our 4 Greek rhetoricians. First, however, I want to provide some details for your first project. Project One: What is Rhetoric? The first project asks you to draw upon our readings, lectures, … Continue reading →

Today’s class reviews 5 separate articles we’ve read over the past week. The concern here is two-fold: First, we want to get a handle on sophistry, to disambiguate it from Plato’s critique, and identify its key players and terms Second, … Continue reading →

Today in class I want to show you a few more CSS fundamentals, including floats and fixed positioning. Like last class, I have sent out a .zip folder with a files we can use. In class I am going to … Continue reading →

In today’s class: A brief introduction to a few rhetorical techniques (10 minutes) Time to read and analyze the SOTU address (20 minutes) Discuss the SOTU (30 minutes) Tweet/Discuss Halloran and Sullivan (13 minutes) Homework Rhetorical Techniques and the State … Continue reading →

I’ve sent out an email with a .zip for use in class today. We’ll work a bit with positioning images, and then I will give you time to work on your projects.