Writing and Rhetoric: Designing Meaning

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
Week 1: Entering the Conversation
1	Introductions as genre; keyterms; structure of the class; analyzing our existing rhetorical knowledge	Self-assessment due Watch: Commander-in-Chief Forum, NBC News
Week 2: Rhetorical Situations
2–3	Rhetorical situations
Week 3: Rhetorical Reading
4	What it means to read rhetorically; annotating; paraphrasing
5	Appeals and stases in action Designing policy arguments
Week 4: Discourse
6	Discourse analysis and design	Watch: First Presidential Debate. YouTube.
7	Rhetorical analysis and thesis development Interpretive sentences Orienting
Week 5: Revision Strategies
8	In-class revision exercises	Draft of Essay 1: Speech Analysis due one day before Ses 8
9	Peer review Revision strategies; style analysis	Watch: Vice Presidential Debate. YouTube.
Week 6: Speeches
10	Speeches	Revision of Essay 1: Speech Analysis due two days after Ses 10
Week 7: Argument Structure
11–12	Argument structure	Watch: Third Presidential Debate. YouTube.
Week 8: Debate Strategies
13	Debate strategies
14	Debate strategies cont. and procedures analysis
Week 9: Arrangement
15	DEBATES!
16	DEBATES!	Draft of Debate Analysis due three days after Ses 16
Week 10: Style
17	Peer review essays
18	Strategies for developing structure and cohesion Syntax, diction, meta-discourse	Peer review
Week 11: Visual Rhetoric
19	Visual rhetoric
20	Analyzing visual rhetoric	Revision of Debate Analysis due two days after Ses 20
Week 12: Structure
21	Synthesis, summary, and complex structures
Week 13: Visual Design
22	Metaphor, symbol, image, and visual design tools
23	Design thinking
Week 14: Delivery
24	Slide design Assertion-evidence structure	Digital rhetoric analysis due
25	Peer review
Week 15: Last Words
26	Presentations
27	Presentations End of semester self-assessment	Revised digital rhetoric analysis due