Rhetoric: 10/21/14

Assignment due: 10/28/14

• Find 5-10 examples each of pathos, logos and ethos from the excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
• Find a speech that you would like to use for your speech analysis.  This is a good resource to use: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/

Rhetoric: 10/14/14

Assignment due: 10/21/14

Please read Chapter 7: pgs 148-158.  Be prepared for in-class quiz.

 

 

Rhetoric: 10/7/14

Assignment due: 10/14/14

Complete final draft of exploratory paper.  Be careful to include proper in-text citations, properly introduced quotations, strong topic sentences that introduce each position, and care paraphrasing when used.

Rhetoric: 9/30/14

Assignment due: 10/7/14

Read “The More Factor” and write a typed one paragraph response that summarizes the main point about how ” the frontier” functions in connection with American consciousness and how this has connected to consumption.   Afterwards, please include several sentences about your own reaction to the piece– do you agree or disagree and why?

Read “American Value Systems” starting on pg. 23.  Read your assigned value system closely and be ready to explain and give examples to the class. 

 

 

Rhetoric: 9/16/14

Assignment due: 9/23/14

• Bring in a Works Cited for your exploratory paper of at least three sources. Put in correct MLA style. Use Purdue Owl if you need to check on correct format.

• Summarize each position in a sentence or two. What are the main motivations/goals of each perspective?

Rhetoric: 9/9/14

Assignment due: 9/16/14

• Decide on issue that has at least three distinct viewpoints
• Create a summary of an article that explains one of the viewpoints.  Use this handout to help you:How to write a summary
• Continue writing down at least 5 topics that stem from current headlines

Rhetoric: 9/2/14

Assignment due: 9/9/14

• Read “My Husband is not my Soul mate”
•  Use “Rhetorical Situation Analysis” to write a 1 page typed response assessing the rhetorical situation: Rhetorical Situation Analysis
•  Choose potential issue for exploratory paper and bring in a short article that represents one viewpoint on the issue.
•  Make a list of five headlines from the news that speak to arguable issues

Rhetoric: 8/26/14

Due 9/2/14

• Read pgs. 10-21 in Chapter 1 of Essentials of Argument
• Write a 300-500 word typed response analyzing your own personal style of argument.  Use examples when possible.  Use the questions i #3a and #3b under “Class Activities and Writing Assignments” on pg. 22 to help you.  Also use Box 1.3 on pg. 23 to decide which style is your predominant form of argument.  This should be on a separate paper from other homework for the week.
• Using the list on pgs. 18-20, identify three current issues that interest you and that you would be interested in developing a position on
• Make a list of five headlines that speak to arguable issues.  This is an ongoing assignment for the first quarter of the year, due every week.
• Read over the “Christian Imagination” quotations.  Be ready to discuss your response to at east one of them next week: Christian Imagination Quotations

Make sure you have read: Rhetoric Guidelines

Rhetoric:1/28/14

Assignment due: 2/4/14

Bring in three sources in correct MLA citation related to your issue

 

Rhetoric: 1/21/14

Assignment due: 1/28/14

• Write a paragraph to how you would find common ground with the other side of your issue. What are values you could agree upon?  What are points from the other side that are valid? Using the ideas of Rogerian argument in Chapter 9 , how could you begin dialogue with other perspectives besides your own.

•  Complete audience inventory
• Continue to refine your claim