Week One: Introducing Everything
This week introduces visual rhetoric, basic rhetorical concepts, and our first major project.
- Monday:
- Opening Freewrite: "Why are you here?"
- Course Description
- What is rhetoric?
- "A bat came through my window"
- "If you really loved me..."
- What's a blog?
- Conference Sign-ups
- Homework:
- Purchase coursepack at Copymat
- Read: Coursepack, Peter Morville, Ambient Findability
- Create an account on our course drupal site (URL forthcoming)
- Wednesday:
- surfing the blogsphere
- del.icio.us and tagging
- Homework:
- Read Coursepack, James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds
- Create a list of five possible topics you would consider blogging on for Thursday's class. Blow this off on pain of death and a semester of torment.
- Thursday:
- Quizercise 1: Morville, linguistic ambiguity, findability
- Discuss: Morville & Surowiekci
- Discuss: Possible blog lists
- Homework:
- Read: Coursepack--Jim Corder's "Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love"
- Conferences:
- Format: 20 minutes, teams of 4
- Goal: Discuss purpose of conferences, review book review choices
