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English 1301: Week 2 Notes

This class overview introduces the concept of rhetorical analysis, its purpose, and the elements to examine in a text. It includes exercises and readings to develop analytical skills.

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English 1301: Week 2 Notes

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  1. English 1301: Week 2 Notes

  2. Class Overview • Reading Quiz #1 • Check Participation Assignment • Introduction to the Rhetorical Analysis: What is it? What does it contain? • Introduction to Texts for Rhetorical Analysis (Draft 1) • In-Class Exercise: Reading and Writing in a Multidisciplinary Community • In-Class Exercise: Responding to the Rhetoric of George W. Bush’s Post-Katrina Speech • Homework: Readings and Participation Assignment #2; no Brief Assignment due next week!

  3. Quiz # 1 • Please respond in complete sentences. • 1. What does it mean to “read rhetorically”? What textual elements or relationships would a reader examine in this manner? • 2. Describe Burke’s Parlor: what is it, and how does it relate to writing? • 3. Define the following: 1) Comma Splice 2) Fused Sentence 3) Sentence Fragment; also, in which of our class texts are these addressed? • 4. What is conceptual knowledge? What is procedural knowledge? How do these two relate to one another? • 5. According to the St. Martin’s Handbook, how might student writers like yourselves establish authority in their writing?

  4. The Rhetorical Triangle Author Text Audience

  5. What Does a Rhetorical Analysis Do or Contain? • A rhetorical analysis is an extended analytical paper that examines the rhetorical choices an author uses in a text to persuade their particular audience of a purpose. • Think less about what the author “conveys” to the audience and more about what the author wants their audience to “do”: how is this supported by a rhetorical strategy? Remember: every author has an “aim” on their audience. • In this class, a rhetorical analysis paper should contain a sufficiently narrow thesis that demonstrates how three rhetorical choices are effectively used in a text to support the author’s purpose. Please familiarize yourself with the parameters for the Draft assignment through the Raider Writer syllabus.

  6. Rhetorical Analysis • For your Draft assignments, you will compose a rhetorical analysis over one of four texts. • Familiarize yourself with these texts (consider annotating them as you read) and select one to work with by 9/18: 1. “Into the Electronic Millennium” by Sven Birkerts, p. 226 2. “The Poetry of Genetics” by Johannes Borgstein, p. 234 3. “Lost in Translation” by Stephen Budiansky, p. 238 4. “Everyone Speaks Text Message” by Tina Rosenberg, p. 267

  7. Reading and Writing in a Multidisciplinary Community • Gather in groups according to your major, discipline, or professional interests • As a group, determine what sorts of texts or documents your field produces: what are these, and what sort of language do they employ? Analytical? Informative? Figurative? Transactional? Critical? Technical? Think about this through examples. • With the group, decide on a major “hot topic” for your field. Determine how you would explain this topic and your field’s approach to it to someone not familiar with your field. Think of one of the other groups as your audience.

  8. Responding to Bush’s Speech • Remain in your groups and compare notes on Bush’s speech: what sorts of comments or points do you share in common? Which features of the text seem significant to a persuasive purpose? Think about the purpose of this sort of speech. • As a group, determine the extent of the speech’s audience? Who does Bush address, and who does he want to persuade? Of what, and why? • Determine three significant rhetorical choices that connect to this audience. How do these connect directly or appeal to that audience’s knowledge or experience?

  9. Homework: Due in Class 9/11/2013 • Read: from First-Year Writing: Chapter 2 pp. 16-21; Chapter 3: pp. 37-46, 51-61; also, from St. Martin’s Handbook: Chapter 12f 2, “Paraphrases” and Chapter 12f 3, “Summaries”; Write on Tutorials, “Summaries and Paraphrasing Sources” (don’t forget to listen to the audio-lesson for this week) • Write: Participation Assignment #2: for this assignment, please read James Gee’s “Situated Meaning and Learning: […]” on pp. 547-51 in your FYW textbook. After completing your readings and exercises (listed above), please compose a summary of this article, and paraphrase the paragraph on p. 548 starting with the sentence “When I give talks on video games…” Print these on the same page using these section headings: 1. Summary, 2. Summary, and 3. Question. For the “Question” section, I want you to compose a question (not readily answered by either of your textbooks) that you have about summary, paraphrase, or source documentation. Please be particular with this question and reference examples if necessary. Last, make sure to include an end-of-text (a Work Cited entry) citation and in-text citations for the text we use in this assignment. Follow MLA documentation standards: they are available in your St. Martin’s Handbook. As always, print your assignment and include your name and heading in the upper right hand corner.

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