Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5

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Week One
Into the Void
In Class
Homework

Monday

Introductions... Why Are You Here?

Read Everything's An Argument 301-313. Analyze two advertisements for their visual properties (see specifically pages 312-313).

Wednesday

Introduction to Fireworks

Do not choke on a chicken bone.

Thursday

Intro to Project 1; what is rhetoric?; looking at images

Due Wednesday: Project One, Part One:
Two 550 word (max) investigations on visual rhetoric. One investigation should focus on an advertisement, another on a work of art [Question: isn't advertisements art?]. Investigations should be polished essays (I want to see what the word essay means to you).

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Week Two
Laying a Foundation
In Class
Homework

Monday

No Class--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Engage some part of African-American culture.

Wednesday

Nothing Will Work in the Lab

Read Everything (ha!) 3-27.

Thursday

Tour of O.W.L. lab., review of visual rhetoric / discussion of "the writing process"

Sally Mann response

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Week Three
Reading Pictures
In Class
Homework

Monday

Tour of DLC. Can we finally discuss: ally Mann's Candy Cigarette?

Finish the other part of the Sally Mann assignment: give me something multimedia.

Wednesday

Intro to WebCT and discussion of Project One, Part Two. (Finally)

Work on Project One, Part Two

Thursday

Focus: Writing, Invention, and Heuristics; Introduction of Project One, Part Three: etymology of "Port"
Project One, Part Two
Read bell hooks' essay "In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life."

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Week Four
Worth a Thousand Words
In Class
Homework

Monday

Reviewing student writing.

Work on Project One, Part Two
Read Everything 51-60; answer the questions on pages 60-61.

Wednesday

Share the Multimedia portion of Project One, Part Two in class. This assignment has two requirements due. First, obviously, you need to have your multi-media portion.

Work Due Thursday: Project One, Part Two essay due. You also need a 550 (min) word essay that (a) rhetorically analyzes the original work, (b) discusses how the work inspired you, and (c) how you approach working with / through the original to create something new. Reading: Selections from Watler Ong (email).

Thursday

Thinking about social images and audience evoked.
Work on Project One, Part Three.
Read 65-86.

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Week Five

Its Almost Over
In Class
Homework

Monday

Review reading;
Rhetorical Proofs: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos.
Working on Project One, Part Three Work, work, work

Wednesday

Peer Review: Project One, Part Three

Due Monday: Project One, Parts Three and Four
In addition to the multimedia portion, you need a 1000 word essay detailing your project.

Thursday

Focus: Writing: Arrangement
Finish Project One.

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Week Six

Its Almost Over
In Class
Homework

Monday

Open Date.

Work, work, work

Wednesday

Peer Review: Project One, Part Three

Due Monday: Project One, Parts Three and Four
In addition to the multimedia portion, you need a 1000 word essay detailing your project.

Thursday

Focus: Writing: Arrangement
Finish Project One.