engl 360 | fall 2007

this schedule is subject to change. All readings, unless otherwise noted, are from the Crowley/Hawhee textbook.

week 1	In-Class Activity	Due
8/20	intro to course
8/22	brief history of rhetoric set up group work	- read pp 1-15 - bring to class (in your brain) one thing you found interesting from the reading, be prepared to discuss why
8/24	history of rhetoric	- read pp 16-35 - bring to class (in your brain) one thing you found interesting from the reading, be prepared to discuss why
week 2	In-Class Activity	Due
8/27	history of rhetoric -- the sophists	- read pp 19-25 of Bizzell and Herzberg
8/29	the sophists	- read Poulakus -write a short response to the following: Define what you think Poulakos means by a Sophistic Rhetoric. What does this mean to you? Describe a time you’ve disagreed with someone, and explain what it would have meant to use sophistic rhetoric in that exchange. If you can’t think of an example, come up with a hypothetical argument between you and someone else.
8/31	group presentations	- Group Presentations (Gorgias, Aspasia, Isocrates)
week 3	In-Class Activity	Due
9/3	LABOR DAY	no class--Labor Day
9/5	kairos	- read pp 36-51
9/7	kairos	- review pp 36-51
week 4	In-Class Activity	Due
9/10	stasis theory	-Paper #1 Due
9/12	stasis theory	- read pp 55-92
9/14	work day	work day
week 5	In-Class Activity	Due
9/17	commonplaces and ideology	- Read 95-130
9/19	commonplaces and ideology group presentations	- Group Presentations (Plato, Aristotle) - Read O'Reilly and Moore (both written after 9/11) and be prepared to discuss how commonplaces and ideologies are functioning within these pieces.
9/21	logos	-read 133-160 -Paper #2 Due
week 6	In-Class Activity	Due
9/24	logos	-review 133-160
9/26	group presentations	- Group Presentations (Cicero, Quintillian) -Paper #3 Due
9/28	ethos	- read 163-199
week 7	In-Class Activity	Due
10/1	ethos	- review 163-199
10/3	pathos	-Paper #4 Due
10/5	pathos	- read 205-217
week 8	In-Class Activity	Due
10/8	pathos	- review 205-217
10/10	review	-Paper #5 Due - Group Presentations (Locke, Douglass, Nietzsche)
10/12	work day	work day
week 9	In-Class Activity	Due
10/15	neo-aristotelian criticism assign rhetorical criticism paper	- read 25-33 and 56-65 of Foss
10/17	neo-aristotelian criticism	- review Monday's readings
10/19	work day	work day
week 10	In-Class Activity	Due
10/22	generic criticism	- read 193-211 of Foss
10/24	presentations	- Group Presentations (Wolfe, Burke)
10/26	generic criticism group work	review Monday's readings
week 11	In-Class Activity	Due
10/29	feminist criticism	- read 151-167 of Foss
10/31	feminist criticism	- review Monday's readings
11/2	writing a rhetorical criticism	- read and BRING TO CLASS sample papers from Foss. 1) pg 56-61 (see 10/15 above), 2) 205-211 (see 10/22 above), and 3) 163-167 (see 10/29 above)
week 12	In-Class Activity	Due
11/5	peer review	Draft of Rhetorical Criticism Paper due -- BRING THREE COPIES
11/7	office hours	- I will be in my office during classtime to answer any questions on the paper
11/9	visual rhetoric & the final project	- Rhetorical Criticism Paper Due
week 13	In-Class Activity	Due
11/12	Veteran's Day Observed	NO CLASS
11/14	Delivery and Visual Rhetoric	- Read 330-351
11/16	presentations and visual rhetoric	- Group Presentations (Foucault, Anzaldua) -Read Faigley, et al. "Picturing Argument." Picturing Texts. New York: WW Norton & Company. 384-398.
week 14	In-Class Activity	Due
11/26	Visual Rhetoric	- Read Blair, J. Anthony. "The Possibility and Actuality of Visual Arguments." Argumentation and Advocacy 33 (Summer 1996): 23-39.
11/28	Visual Rhetoric	- Read Kinross, Robin. "The Rhetoric of Neutrality." Design Discourse: History/Theory/Criticism. Ed Victor Margolin. Chicago: UC Press, 1989. 131-143. Rpt.Revisions Reader. Eds. Lynch et al. 373-385. - Read Lupton, Ellen and Abbott Miller. "McPaper: USA Today and the Journalism of Hope." Design Writing Research. London: Phaidon Press, 2000. 143-156.
11/30	Final Project Presentations	Final Project Presentations
week 15	In-Class Activity	Due
12/3	Final Project Presentations	Final Project Presentations
12/5	Final Project Presentations	Final Project Presentations
12/7	Final Project Presentations	Final Project Presentations Project #7 DUE