Today we’ll discuss and practice evaluating sources for credibility, usefulness, and appropriateness to a rhetorical situation. Then we’ll discuss developing a focus for your analysis papers and practice generating claims and reasons statements.
Assignments for Next Class
FIRST DRAFT DUE; BRING THREE COPIES TO CLASS.
Wednesday, March 3
Today we’ll discuss strategies for revision and peer review. We’ll practice them with a sample paper and then you’ll work in peer review groups to give each other feedback.
Assignments for Next Class
Complete peer review sheets; bring them to class on Friday.
Honors section: Visual Rhetoric #3.
Friday, March 5
Today you’ll discuss the suggestions made by your peer review group members. Then we’ll ask and answer questions about revision strategies, including thesis statements, use and attribution of sources, and organization.
Assignments for Next Class
Prepare for midterm assessment (get your notes in order; you can also bring your book).
Monday, February 22
Today we’ll discuss how three different investigators approached the same urban legend and what they have in common and how they differ.
Assignments for Next Class
Read “Email Forwardables” (given out in class) and pp. 49-58 in Norton Field Guide.
Wednesday, February 24
Today we’ll discuss the article “Email Forwardables” and how that investigator examined urban legends. Then we’ll work on brainstorming possible topics for your analysis papers.
Assignments For Next Class
Email instructor with topic.
Read pp. 375-384 in Norton Field Guide.
Honors: Visual rhetoric reading given out in class.
Friday, February 26
Today we’ll finalize topics for the analysis paper and discuss strategies for locating sources about your urban legend as well as strategies for recording and citing information as you do research.
Assignments For Next Class
Locate sources for your draft; bring AT LEAST ONE SOURCE TO CLASS.
BRING YOUR BOOK TO CLASS.
Monday, February 15
Today you’ll turn in your literacy narratives. We’ll then go over the guidelines for the next assignment (Busting a Myth) and begin talking about how people analyze and discuss urban legends.
Assignments For Next Class
Read “What Are Urban Legends?”, “Preface,” (Brunvand) and “Introduction” (Craughwell) (Given out in class.)
Wednesday, February 17
Today we’ll continue our investigation into urban legends by discussing how people define urban legends.
Assignments For Next Class
Read “Curses! Broiled Again!” and “Brown Betty.” (Given out in class.)
Friday, February 19
MID-WINTER RECESS: NO CLASS
Assignments For Next Class
Read “Curses! Broiled Again!” and “Brown Betty.” (Given out in class.)
Today we’ll discuss and practice descriptive writing strategies to help you with your literacy narratives.
Assignments For Next Class
Read Chapter 39 in Norton Guide.
Wednesday, February 3
Today we’ll discuss and practice drafting strategies to help you with your literacy narratives and continue our exploration of the writing process.
Assignments For Next Class FIRST DRAFT OF LITERACY NARRATIVE DUE: BRING THREE COPIES TO CLASS.
Friday, February 5
Today we’ll revew principles for peer review and practice them with a sample paper. Then you’ll be divided up into peer review groups that you’ll work in for the duration of this assignment.
Assignment For Next Class
Complete peer review sheets and bring them to class.
Honors section only: complete visual rhetoric reading and viewing on course Web site (introduction to visual rhetoric plus PostSecret project images and videos).
Today we’ll analyze and discuss three literacy narratives in order to find out more about the features of that genre. We’ll also discuss how writing works as a process and start the writing process for your literacy narratives.
Assignments for Next Class
Read “Potato Chips and Stars” and “A Case Study of Charles Jackson”: answer questions 1-4 in “Potato Chips and Stars.” We’ll use them in class to help us discuss that literacy narrative.
Wednesday, January 27
We’ll continue discussing and working on literacy narratives by analyzing and discussing the rhetorical aspects of two more literacy narratives.
Assignments For Next Class
Read pp. 30-37 in Norton Field Guide.
Email the instructor with your topic for the literacy narrative.
Friday, January 29
Today we’ll review the rhetorical situation for literacy narratives, discuss how stance affects how we write and read literacy narratives (and any other kind of writing) and practice adopting different stances to tell the same narrative.
Assignment For Next Class
Read chapters 36 and 37 in Norton Field Guide. (Don’t worry; they’re short.)
Dr. Erin Karper || ekarper@niagara.edu or ProfKarper@gmail.com || AIM: ProfKarper
Dunleavy 350 || 286-8631 || Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m., 12:30-1:00 p.m. and 2:30-3:00 p.m. Other times by appointment
This online scavenger hunt asks you to do some work online and to e-mail your results to the instructor. It’s designed to help you become familiar with the course Web site and also to give the instructor some necessary information about you.
Send an e-mail to the instructor (you’ll need to find her e-mail address in one of its many locations as part of the scavenger hunt) with answers to the following questions:
What’s your name?
What section of WRT 100 are you in? (C, E, or G)
What’s your phone number?
What’s your email address?
What’s your major?
What link on the site would you click on if you wanted to know what we were doing in class each week?
When are the instructor’s office hours, and where is her office?
Which category of links will help you with the urban legends projects?
Which link in the “Do Research” category will help you cite your research using MLA style in a research paper?
Which link in the “Write a Draft” category will help you write an outline?
Bonus round:
What is rhetoric? (Extra special credit for not using dictionary.com or Wikipedia to acquire your answer.)
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, anyways?
When you’ve finished, be sure to bookmark the course Web site (or add it to your favorites) so that you can refer to it later.
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