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English 1301

English 1301 . Section No. 4 & 5 Instructor: Kazutaka Sugiyama. First class overview. * Course Overview * Course Policy * Raider Writer (RW) and St. Martin’s Handbook (e-book) * Course Web * What is “rhetoric”? * Assignment for next week. Course Policies.

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English 1301

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  1. English 1301 Section No. 4 & 5 Instructor: Kazutaka Sugiyama

  2. First class overview • * Course Overview • * Course Policy • * Raider Writer (RW) and St. Martin’s Handbook (e-book) • * Course Web • * What is “rhetoric”? • * Assignment for next week

  3. Course Policies • Page xix to xxix in First-Year Writing 7th Ed 2013-2014 version • Since we don’t have much time but 90 min, I expect you to read it through in your own time. And it is your responsibility of reading them and knowing them thoroughly.

  4. Raider Writer (RW) • https://raiderwriter.engl.ttu.edu/ • Use Firefox for RW; free download: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ • You will receive a welcome e-mail through which you can activate your RW account. • Take a grammar diagnostic exam (1 ½ hour to 2 hours) • Set up your account as soon as possible (within 48 hours) because the link for setup will be expired shortly. • If you have any technological problem see FAQ in our course blog. If you cannot solve issues even after going through the FAQ, email me.

  5. St. Martin’s Handbook • You may either purchase directly through the Bedford/St. Martins website or purchase an access card with code from the campus bookstore. • Go to ebooks.bfwpub.com/ttu. The homepage contains links to either purchase the book or register an activation code from an access card. You will need to know your instructor’s last name and course number. • You will be given 4-year subscription.

  6. Course Website • http://ksugirhetoricandcomp.wordpress.com/ • Most of announcements will be uploaded on this website. So please check EVERYDAY! • You will find “home,” “Raider Writer,” “Assignment Description,” “Contact,” “Course Syllabus,” “Power Point Slides,” and “Useful Links.” • When you do your Brief Assignments (BA) Always follow the “Assignment Description” of the web, not RW’s assignment description. There might be some modifications.

  7. What is rhetoric? : rhetorical triangle

  8. Martin Luther King, Jr. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!

  9. Visual rhetoric • Obama That I Used To Know (a parody of Someone That I Used To Know by Gotye: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJnAp3YxCCw

  10. What is rhetoric? 3 • Understanding a text rhetorically means to understand WHAT it says AND HOW it says.

  11. Assignment for next week (Reading)Due 6/6. Don’t forget to work on BA1 (due 6/6) as well! • First-year Writing: Chapter One, pp. 2-15; Chapter 12,  - Stephen Budiansky: “Lost in Translation” pp. 238-244- Jared Diamond: “The Ethnobiologist’s Dilemma” pp. 556-562 • St. Martin’s Handbook: Chapter 1, “Expectations for College Writing”; Chapter 60a, “Reading Texts in the Humanities” and DiYanni, “Developing a College Vocabulary” (available in the final part of the handbook, “WID/Critical Reading Skills”)

  12. Review • 1) Buy the textbook and e-handbook and activate your Raider Writer account. • 2) Take the grammar diagnostic exam and complete BA1 by (6/6), then submit it into Raider Writer. Don’t send it to me. • 3) Complete the reading assignment for next week. • 4) Make sure you read the course policy and understand it well (we may have a quiz on itas well).

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