Today’s Plan:
- Community Engagement Planning
- Corder
- Homework
Community Engagement Planning
Next Friday we will be meeting with Amelia E. Koehmstedt,
Director of Development for Arc Charities. As I shared, we’ve discussed three potential projects:
- Families in Action grant writing project [research potential grants, draft and develop grant materials]
- Colorado Gives [create documentation for volunteers, develop promotional materials, work with brand identity]
- Organizational History project [conduct interviews (oral? email? video?) with past members, synthesize documents, produce paper/html/video]
I think all three projects provide ample opportunities for you to develop and demonstrate the skills we identified in the Job Research projects. I want to get a sense of your interests before we meet with Amelia next week, so please complete this quick Google Form.
Jim Corder, “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love”
My standard questions:
- Group One: [sections 1-3]: What does Corder mean by the idea that we make narratives? Why do said narratives complicate traditional notions of argument and rhetoric?
- Group Two: [sections 4-6]: How can we describe Rogerian method? Why is Corder skeptical that such a method can be useful to rhetoric?
- Group Three: [section 6-7]: Looking at section 7, would your frame Corder as an optimist or pessimist? What do “we” have to learn (and who are the “we” of this section’s final paragraphs)?
- Group Four: [Section 8]:What do we make of section 8? Why is this story here? What does it exemplify or reinforce?
- Group Five: [Section 9]: What does it mean to be “perpetually opening and closing” (29)? How can such a position help us be better? How does it tie to the other advice offered in this section?
I have a thing for us to read.
Homework
The first update memo on your personal learning project is due on Monday. Send me an email, following the guidelines for email in ABO 164-167 (particularly the organiztional advice on Writing and Design hint fracking hint). Feel free to insert or attach any supplemental documents.
