Conduct an observation with a partner Decide on a place, a time, and a common frame or question to organize your observation. Make sure you orient yourselves the same way (for example, label people and the objects in the setting…
English 5870
Exercise 1 – Still Life in Pairs
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Agree on an object and then spend 15 minutes observing and describing it (in writing). Be as descriptive as you can. Write several paragraphs describing the object, first what it’a like, then what you think about it. Use specific details…
English 5001
Week 1 — Classical Rhetoric, Greek and Roman.
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Isocrates Born in 436 BCE, Isocrates was one of the most influential rhetors of his time, and actually studied with Gorgias and possibly Plato as well. He was concerned with concrete rhetorical problems in which one had to reach a…
English 5001
Timeline of Classical, Medeival, and Renaissance Rhetoric
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Silva Rhetoricae covers Western Rhetoric and offers many useful resources, including a list of rhetorical devices and their definition, links to rhetorical texts online, information about the history and practice of rhetoric, and a timeline showing the publication of important…
English 5870
5870 — Calendar
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Tentative Schedule Week 1: What is Ethnography? 2/17 Introduction to the course and to each other. Don DeLillo passage about “The Most Photographed Barn in America” . Quick-write responses to syllabus quotations. An exercise in observation. *Create a plan for…
From the Field
Hiring Committees and people who teach multimodal comp. Mixed with Nazis.
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In Kairos 13.2, the following video is presented. I’m really not sure about remixing Hitler (or a film about him) for this. The term “grammar nazi” is pretty common and this obviously a play on that phrase, but I’ve grown…