ENGL 015, Summer 2008 Course Notes

Week 1: Introduction to Rhetoric and Narrative

7/6:

• Reminders:
  • I’ve posted links to my course notes on ANGEL.
  • Remember to bring your reading journal to class on Tuesday
  • Talk about today / tomorrow in email.
• The Three Appeals
• Enthymeme
• What we learned today:
  • Rhetoric isn’t so much one thing
  • A set of tools
  • Essentially, we are building a badass collection of ninja weapons to become more cunning and deadly than our rhetorical opponents.

7/7:

• Introduction to Rhetorical Grammar
• Introduction to Narrative

7/9

Prep:

1. Get student examples for Friday.

• 2012
• 2012: It’s a Disaster
• Establishing a Mood In Narrative
• Establishing Detail
  • Four examples of sunsets

7/10

• Student Examples
  • Country Comfort
• “Preface” & “Prologue”

7/13

• Rough Draft Review

7/14

• Definition Introduction
• “Odessa”

7/16

• From Description to Definition: Creating a Thesis
• “The Watermelon Feed”

7/17

• Student Example Essays
• “Boobie”

7/23

• Introduction to Tropes
• Questions for Rhetorical Analysis
• “Dreaming of Heroes”

7/24

• Working w/ Quotations in Writing.
• “Black & White”
• “The Ambivalence of Ivory”

7/31

• Alternate Schedule?
  • Cancel film viewing?
• Discussion of #1 Party School
  • Penn State Ranked #1 Party School
  • Jimmy Fallon Talks About the Worst Party Schools
• Talking about Validating Internet Sources
  • .45 ammo shortage
  • Birther movement (?)
  • Moon landing deniers
  • The kinds of questions

8/4

• Introduction to Evaluation