Welcome To College Writing 1101 (Section 17)

Syllabus

September 19, 2008

September 17, 2008

Incorporating the 5 senses into paper two:  Memoir About Food

How does the food...

• Look
• Taste
• Sound
• Feel
• Smell

Removing "In this paper I will..."

Avoiding Point of View (POV) violations:

Don't whip your reader around by shifting from 1st person to 3rd person.  It is like abruptly shifting lanes while driving on the freeway, your passengers will get slammed around.  The same thing happens to your reader when you abruptly shift from 1st to 3rd (or 2nd).  Pick one POV and stay consistent throughout your paper.

September 15, 2008

Review of making strong verb choices.

In-class workshop: example

The student jumped into the pool.

     becomes...

The student catapulted into the pool.

Library Tour | Friday, September 12 | 9:00 a.m.

September 10, 2008

Grammar Lecture:  Chapter 22

Matching singular subjects with singular pronouns.

Reading for vague pronoun usage.

September 8, 2008

Available Means:  Not just the limitations of pen and paper or computer and printer.

Your available means can also mean your available knowledge base or available research materials.  Sometimes there isn't the research available to write on a certain topic.

Organization:

• Listing
• Balloons
• Outline
• T-Journal
• Questioning
• Brainstorming
• Journaling
• Freewriting

Revision:  Revision is rethinking.

Write freely in your rough draft and then freely cut during the revision process.  This is also when you will reevaluate your audience and the tone of your paper; elevating language where necessary.  Take advantage of the Writing Resource Center.

September 3, 2008

Identifying a Fitting Response:

After identifying the rhetorical elements, the rhetor then needs to consider the constraints and opportunities that will inform her decision as to which genre and medium will be used to fashion a response.

     Is the response going to be a visual, written, or verbal response?

     Which rhetorical style (genre) will best suit the intended audience?

          Genre choices:  Blog | video | pamphlets | billboards | television ad | print ad | periodical article | book | report | memoir | email | text message

There is no one perfect fitting response.  Each rhetor is going to respond to an exigence based upon his own style.  One response might be a video, while another may be a blog entry and yet another will be an academic research paper.  One factor that can work as either a constraint or an opportunity is the rhetor's knowledge and access to available means.

Other factors that can add to a fitting response are; rhetorical appeals (ethos, logos, pathos) and rhetorical methods of development (more on this later).

We also watched this video www.youtube.com/watch and answered questions to try to analyze whether this was a fitting response.

August 29, 2008

We talked about Context:  Remember the Toilet Paper Example ;-)

Then we discussed Letter from a Birmingham Jail in terms of its rhetorical elements and how it was a fitting response to the exigence.

For Wednesday you will need to have read Chapter 2 focusing specifically on An Action Plan for Higher Education by Margaret Spellings.

(If you don't have your textbook, follow the link provided so you can at least respond to this reading in class on Wednesday).

 August 27, 2008

"Rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given situation the available means of persuasion." ~ Aristotle

Being a good writer starts with being good at asking questions and observing;

Who | What | When | Where | Why | How Come

Today we talked about the Elements of Rhetoric:

• Exigence
• Purpose
• Rhetor
• Message
• Audience
• Context

After we watched this video we then identified its Rhetorical Elements.