Today’s Plan:
- Quick Write: Define Rhetoric
- On the Importance of Shitty First Drafts
- Paper Draft Review
- For Next Class
Quick Write: Define Rhetoric
On the first day of class, I asked y’all to write a definition of rhetoric. Let’s try that activity again. But first, let’s took at this. And some of this. And a little bit of this.
Rhetoric concerns how humans craft and receive ideas, paying particular attention to how notions of identity and affective states influence perception and reception, how language often slips beyond agentive intention, and how to cross the divide between knowing that one should do and actually doing things.
On the Importance of Shitty First Drafts
This.
Paper Draft Review
This.
For Next Class
REVISE. Also, bring Readings’ University in Ruins to class.
