Monday, 1 May 2000
To help (yourself and your colleagues)
get ready for
the final exam, between now and
Monday, May 1, please
post to the Bulletin Board at
least one question with
answer for Part A or B or E (see guidelines below).
The earlier you post your Q&A, the more likely it is
that the question (or some version of it) will appear on
the actual exam.
Thursday, 27 April 2000
Last regular class meeting.
Tuesday, 25 April 2000
Review chapters 8 ("Reasoning in
Rhetoric") and 12
("Style") in Ancient Rhetorics (162-182; 229-263).
Alice Walker, "Am I Blue?" (handout).
Corbett, "Survey of Rhetoric" (handout).
Thursday, 20 April 2000
Lanham, Analyzing Prose: "Two Lemon
Squeezers"
(handout), with particular attention to the analysis of
"The Gettysburg Address."
Wednesday, 19 April 2000 (by 6:00 p.m.)
Post on bulletin board a fairly short
(roughly 100-150 words)
original example of one of the following exercises: fable,
chreia, proverb, encomium, or invective. For further
information, see Chapter 16 of our text and follow the links
on the Progymnasmata page.
Tuesday, 18 April 2000
Lanham, Analyzing Prose: "Parataxis and
Hypotaxis"
(handout);
Opening Lines (from "Life in the Iron Mills," Bleak House,
and "The Chrysanthemums") (handout)
Thursday, 13 April 2000
George Orwell, "A Hanging" (handout)
--Joan Didion, "Goodbye to All That"
(handout)
Tuesday, 11 April 2000
Ancient Rhetorics: Chapter 16, "The
Progymnasmata"
(320-366) [Check NOTES for
reading guidelines]
George Orwell, "A Hanging" (handout)
Thursday, 6 April 2000
E. B. White, "Death of a Pig" (handout): read essay and
write out analysis of section (b, c, d, e, f, or g) assigned
in class.
Tuesday, 4 April 2000
Ancient Rhetorics: Chapter 15,
"Imitation: Achieving
Copiousness" (290-319)
James Thurber's "The Catbird Seat" (handout)
Guidelines and deadlines for final paper
are posted here.
Thursday, 30 March 2000
Ancient Rhetorics: Chapter 5, "The
Commonplaces" (75-104).
Tuesday, 28 March 2000
This week we return to the first canon
of classical rhetoric: invention.
Ancient Rhetorics: Chapter 3, "Kairos
and the Rhetorical Situation" (30-43)
Wednesday, 15 March 2000
Too late--too bad.
You have until today to post at least one
exam Q&A to the bulletin board:
Between now and March 15, please
post
to the bulletin board at least
ONE
sample question and answer,
following the format illustrated in
the
"First Sample." You may of
course submit MORE than one sample
Q
& A (the purpose of this exercise
is to
help you and your colleagues
review for the exam). In addition,
please feel free (though you're not
required) to post a brief passage
(5-10
lines) from Shakespeare
(along with terms and definitions)
following the guidelines described
on the midterm exam page. You may
also want to use the bulletin board
to continue our analysis of King's
speech.
Please examine and
evaluate all materials submitted
to
the bulletin board: if
you
think one of the sample answers
is
faulty or incomplete, please
respond with a clarification.
Though I'll check the bulletin
board
regularly to try to make sure
that
no misinformation persists, of
course it's up to you (and
eventually to me) to judge whether
a
sample answer is deserving of
full-credit. In other words: user
beware.
(If
you have trouble posting to
the
board, send me your Q & A in an
email, and I'll post it for you.
Check
the bulletin board now for a
sample Q & A and the recommended
format for submissions.)
Thursday, 9 March 2000
Read (and prepare to
analyze in class) Dr. King's "I
Have a
Dream"
speech (online).
Tuesday, 7 March 2000
Read Brian Vickers on "Shakespeare"s
Use of Rhetoric" (handout) and prepare
for class your identification of the
rhetorical strategies employed in your
passage from Merchant of Venice or
Hamlet. Also, read the second
installment (on Renaissance rhetoric)
from Corbett's "Survey" (handout).
Thursday, 2 March 2000
Ancient Rhetorics: Read Chapter 13,
"Memory" (264-274)
Tuesday, 29 February 2000
Ancient Rhetorics: Read Chapter Ten,
"Arrangement" (198-213)
Also, read (and be ready to analyze)
T. S. Eliot's "Love
Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock."
Check NOTES for links to
sundry parodies and revisions of this
poem.
Thursday, 24 February 2000
Read John Donne's Meditation
17 (handout) and
student's rhetorical analysis of the text (handout).
Analyze the student essay, noting the manner in which
stylistic devices and rhetorical strategies are not only
identified but (more importantly) examined for their
particular effects.
Tuesday, 22 February 2000 (revised)
Thursday, 17 February 2000
Read the online materials for studying
the
rhetoric of Shakespeare's Julius
Caesar, Act III,
scene ii (includes summary of play and full text
of Act III, scene ii). And then (on handouts) identify
rhetorical strategies employed by Brutus and
Antony respectively.
Re-read Chapter 12 in Ancient Rhetorics and
continue to study rhetorical terms (see Notes
for
February 15). Prepare for quick review of
grammatical terms by studying handout and
visiting online sites linked to Notes
for February
17.
Tuesday, 15 February 2000
Ancient Rhetorics: Read Chapter Twelve,
"Style" (229-263)
Read Jesse
Jackson's speech (online) to the delegates
at the 1988 Democratic Convention. (We'll be
hearing excerpts from the speech in class.) You'll find
a nine-minute RealAudio excerpt of the speech at
the bottom of this
page.
Tuesday, 8 February 2000
Study online excerpts from Book
I of
Aristotle's Rhetoric.
Ancient Rhetorics: Read Chapters Seven: "Pathetic
Proof" (146-161) and & Eight: "Reasoning in Rhetoric"
(162-182).
Read handout: "The Word on the Street," by Marcus
Laffey
Thursday, 3 February 2000
Provide an example of a rhetorically
"neutered" piece of poetry or prose (following the
format of the sample piece on "Cynara")--original
on the left, "neutered" version on the right. This
exercise, like all other assignments, should be
word-processed. Because we won't be meeting
on campus this evening, you may either drop off
the "neutering" assignment in the box outside my
office or send it to me via FAX (921 5688) or
e-mail attachment.
Wednesday, 2 February 2000
By 6 p.m., post to Bulletin Board examples of
five rhetorical terms, following the guidelines discussed
in class and the format illustrated by my examples (dated
1/26) on the bulletin board. Be patient waiting for the
board to load (it can take a minute or so--and
sometimes you have to try a couple of times before it
cooperates*), click on "post new message" when you
reach the bulletin board site, identify yourself by name
and e-mail address, and then provide your examples
following the prescribed format. Be sure to use the
online version of Rhetorical Terms
as your guide.
Your examples may be drawn from your reading, your
memory, a book of quotations, or your imagination
(in other words, feel free to create your own structures).
Don't, of course, bother lifting examples from other
lists of rhetorical terms. (*If, after several careful attempts,
you're unable to access the bulletin board, send me
your examples by e-mail.)
Tuesday, 1 February 2000
Ancient Rhetorics: Read Chapter Six:
"Ethical
Proof" (105-145).
Thursday, 27 January 2000
Read Corbett's "A Survey of Rhetoric" (handout).
Tuesday, 25 January 2000
Ancient Rhetorics: Read Chapter Two, "A
History
of Ancient Rhetorics" (21-29).
Turn in at least one magazine advertisement that you think
has a particularly interesting, unusual, and/or distinctive kind
of persuasive appeal. Attach to the ad a note explaining
what you think that appeal is. Be sure to check NOTES for
examples and guidelines.
Thursday, 20 January 2000
Make sure that you are keeping up with previews and
and postscripts on NOTES page and that you are now familiar
with the main divisions and basic contents of this web site.
Your e-mail address was due a week ago.
Tuesday, 18 January 2000
Ancient
Rhetorics: Read Chapter One, "Ancient Rhetorics:
Their Differences, and the Differences They Make," 1-20.
(Skim--but no need to write out responses to--the
exercises at the end of the chapter.)
Briefly (no more than 200 words) but specifically, describe a
particular rhetorical situation from everyday life--a "persuasive
experience" which you have participated in or observed directly.
I'll collect these descriptions at the beginning of Tuesday's class.
Thursday,
13 January 2000
Read (and think about the implied rhetorical situations in) the
poems by Roethke and Shakespeare (on Tuesday's class handout).
Before Thursday's class, be sure to send me a brief e-mail
with
your name and information about your English background, major,
and career goals.
English 5730 is taught by Dr. Richard Nordquist.
Armstrong
Atlantic State University
Victor 1-10
11935 Abercorn Street
Savannah, Georgia
31419
912/921 5991
FAX: 912/921 5688
e-mail: nordquist@mail.com
27 April 2000
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