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Week One |
Into the Void
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Read Everything's An Argument 301-313. Analyze two advertisements for their visual properties (see specifically pages 312-313). |
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Do not choke on a chicken bone. |
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Intro to Project 1; what is rhetoric?; looking at images |
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Week Two |
Laying a Foundation
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Engage some part of African-American culture. |
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Read Everything (ha!) 3-27. |
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Tour of O.W.L. lab., review of visual rhetoric / discussion of "the writing process" |
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Week Three |
Reading Pictures
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In Class |
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Finish the other part of the Sally Mann assignment: give me something multimedia. |
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Focus: Writing, Invention, and Heuristics; Introduction of Project One, Part Three: etymology of "Port" |
Project One, Part Two |
Week Four |
Worth a Thousand Words
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In Class |
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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). |
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Thinking about social images and audience evoked. |
Work on Project One, Part Three. |
Week Five |
Its Almost Over
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In Class |
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Review reading; |
Working on Project One, Part Three Work, work, work |
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Due Monday: Project One, Parts Three and Four |
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Focus: Writing: Arrangement |
Finish Project One. |
Week Six |
Its Almost Over
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In Class |
Homework |
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Work, work, work |
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Due Monday: Project One, Parts Three and Four |
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Focus: Writing: Arrangement |
Finish Project One. |