Today’s Plan:
- Trick or Tweet Halloween Contest
- Schedule
- Reviewing the Annotated Bibliography
- For Next Class
Trick or Tweet Contest
I’d like to see more entries! And more follows. Let’s take 5 minutes.
Schedule
Week 11 (Nov 5, 7)
- Tuesday: Review second wave of research annotations. Outline course evaluation project.
- Thursday: Ross Computer Lab. Lecture: Developing Survey Questions. Work: Design / Develop potential course evaluation procedure. Weekend homework: read Roberts-Miller. Complete Canvas assignment.
Week 12 (Nov 12, 14)
- Tuesday: Discuss Roberts-Miller. Homework: complete
- Thursday: Ross Computer Lab. Continue to develop course evaluation procedures.
Week 13 (Nov 19, 21)
- Tuesday: Peer review team assessment materials. Revise materials for Thursday. Organize course eval groups/responses.
- Thursday: Do course evaluations.
Week 14 (26, 28)
- Tuesday: Meet to synthesize course evaluation research. Lay out recommendation letter assignments. Thanksgiving break homework: Draft recommendation letter.
- Thursday: Thanksgiving
Week 15 (Dec 3, 5)
- Tuesday: Share recommendation letters. Revise recommendation letters.
- Thursday: Work on letter recommendations.
Week 16 Exam Week (Dec 10, 12)
- Tuesday: Meet to share recommendation letters.
- Thursday: No class. Extra Credit assignments are due Saturday at midnight.
Extra Credit assignment
Originally I imagined us working on two assignments for these last few weeks. This no longer seems feasible for two reasons: first, I gave us an extra week and a half on the What is Rhetoric? paper. Second, the course evaluation project maps out to be a bit more work than I expected.
But I did have you purchase two books–the Roberts-Miller and the Snyder–and I don’t want to make that purchase a waste.
The calendar still involves a Roberts-Miller assignment. That’s on there for two reasons. First, I think it is especially important that Americans are aware of the threat of authoritarianism–both our desire for it and our slide towards it. Democracy and Demagoguery is a short book that needs to be read and discussed. Second, I want to offer two options for an extra-credit assignment.
- Option One: A rhetorical analysis of a politician’s 2020 campaign materials. These materials would include: their website and one campaign speech (look on youtube.com). You would build a lens for this analysis using Roberts-Miller: what components of their materials speak to what she identifies as “democracy.” What might be considered as elements of “demagoguery”?
- Option Two: A compare/contrast analysis that puts Miller and Snyder in conversation with each other. What idea(s) do they share? Where might they differ? Even where they have similarities, do they have different priorities? Alternatively, can you put one idea that appears in both Miller and Snyder in conversation with one of our classical greek (or contemporary) rhetorical theorists?
I would expect either of these papers to check in around 4-5 pages double-spaced. The rhetorical analysis paper could easily I am more than willing to talk to anyone who wants to complete one of these projects in office hours (we can set up an appointment). Just email me if you want more details.
As the schedule above indicates, I can except these papers up until Saturday after exam week (Dec 14th) at midnight.
Reviewing the Annotated Bibliography
Get with your partner(s) for 5 minutes. Tell us what you learned.
Homework
For next class: a second wave of research annotations.
