English 680V: Visual Rhetoric in a Technological Age (Purdue)

Tuesday, January 30

• Read Eye and Brain by Richard L. Gregory, pp. vii-98. Suggested prompt: Identify one astounding or unexpected idea about the eye, brain, or process of seeing that you learned from this section in Gregory's book. How does it help you understand writing (or rhetoric) differently or more complexly than before?

Thursday, February 1

• Read "What Is Rhetoric?" by William A. Covino and David Jolliffe (PDF format; download the article from the list at the bottom of this page).
• Read "All Living Things Are Critics" by Kenneth Burke (from Permanence and Change). (PDF format; download the article from the list at the bottom of this page).
• Read "Tales of the Unexpected" by Larry Ferrario, Judy Martin, and David Blakesley (PDF format; download the article from the list at the bottom of this page).