ENGL 411: Rhetorics of the Profession

COURSE EVALUATION

[Schedule Through December 9]
* This is not set in stone. Dates and activities may change.*

Week	Activities/Readings	Major Assignments
October 17-21	Read “Rhetoric in (as) Digital Economy” Read “Can We Block These Political Things” Analysis Example	Introduce Rhetorical Analysis Assignment
October 24-28	Rhetorical Listening Peer Review Peer Review Partners Read “Gender Theory” Judith Butler video HRC Guidelines Government Guidelines Getty ImagesRead “Postmodernism”	Rhetorical Listening Analysis due
October 31-November 4	Rhetorical Analysis Peer Review Peer Review Partners Read “Stories and Maps” Research – Rhetorical Journals Resources Final Groups	Introduce Final Project
November 7-11	Read “The Ethics of Expediency” Memo Overview Work Day	Rhetorical Analysis due Proposal Memo due
November 14-18	Read “Beyond the Realm of Reason: Understanding the Extreme Environmental Rhetoric of the John Birch Society” In-Class Work Day Final Project Rubric
November 21-25	No Class	Thanksgiving Break
November 28- December 2	Sarah Gibson and Anne Grae presentations Project Draft Workshop
December 5-9	Presentations	Final project and reflection due

[Schedule Through October 21]
* This is not set in stone. Dates and activities may change.*

Week	Activities/Readings	Major Assignments
August 29-September 2	Introduction to Rhetoric Read “How Can Rhetoric Theory Inform the Practice of Technical Communication.”	Introduce Twitter assignment
September 5-9	Read “Perspectives on Study of Rhetoric” Read “Aristotle on Rhetoric” and “Nicomachean Ethics”
September 12-16	Read “Rhetorica A Hernnium” Read “What is Socratic Dialogue” and “Taylor Swift” Read “Defining Rhetorical Listening” 9/16 – Class cancelled –	Assignment due Rhetorician Write-Up
September 19-23	Discuss Rhetorical Listening Read “Identifying Place of Rhetorical Listening”
September 26-30	Read “Listening Metonymically” Discuss Metonymically listening Visual Rhetoric Read “When Typography is a Matter of Life and Death”	Introduce Rhetorical Listening Debate assignment Watch First Presidential Debate – September 26
October 3-7	Read “Semiotics Models” Continue reading “Semiotic Models” Read “Rhetoric of the Image”
October 10-14	Blue Cross Blue Shield Brochure Read “The Rhetorics of Online Austism Advocacy” Read “Moar Digital Activism, Please”
October 17-21	Read “Rhetoric in (as) Digital Economy” Read “Can We Block These Political Things” Read “Saving the Great Lakes”	Introduce Rhetorical Analysis assignment