+
May 11 (Sunday)
--Final Exam. Quick
answer key to the final exam is
posted here.
--Final Grades. As
noted on the exam, you can collect graded exams and final projects from the rhetoric box
in Solms 211 on Tuesday afternoon, May 13, or any time afterwards.
--E-mail. I check the
class email address only while class is in session. If you need to reach me, please
address emails to richard.nordquist@armstrong.edu.
--Happy Trails.
May 9 (Friday)
--Final Exam. Answer
key to the final exam will be posted here over the weekend.
--Final Grades. As
noted on the exam, you can collect graded exams and final projects from the rhetoric box
in Solms 211 on Tuesday, May 13, or any time afterwards.
--E-mail. I check the class email address only while class is
in session. If you need to reach me, please address emails to richard.nordquist@armstrong.edu.
--Happy Trails.
April 29 (Tuesday)
--NOTES. Please read
the postscript to this afternoon's class.
--ASSIGNMENTS due this Thursday (final project) and next Tuesday (final exam) have been posted. Good luck.
--FINAL PROJECT. Guidelines were posted on March 20. The deadline
for submitting drafts for review was Sunday, April 27. Projects are due in my office by
6:00 this Thursday.
April 28 (Monday)
--FINAL
EXAM: study tips and outline are
posted on the EXAMS page. Note
that the final exam starts at 4:00
next Tuesday, May 6.
--AD ANALYSES (revised).
As you review for the final
exam, revisit the AD ANALYSES page and follow links marked by a red asterisk (i.e., those that contain
a revised analysis or a second analysis--or both).
April 25 (Friday)
--FINAL PROJECT. It's Friday afternoon, and I've caught up with all
emails. I'll next be responding to drafts (hurriedly, I'm afraid) on Sunday night.
--CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS. All students are invited to participate in this weekend's conference:
April 25 at the Armstrong Center:
poster exhibition--6:30 p.m.
Speaker Karin Ryan (director of the Human Rights program at the Carter Center)--7:30
Reception--8:30 (please send me an email to make a reservation)
April 26 at University Hall 157 &
158:
paper presentations & poster exhibition--8 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
April 24 (Thursday)
--ASSIGNMENTS due for our review session next Tuesday have been posted.
--NOTES. Please read
the postscript to this week's classes and the preview of next week's class.
--EMAIL. I'll next be checking class email over the weekend.
--EXAM: Over the weekend I'll be posting guidelines for the final
exam.
April 18 (Friday)
--ASSIGNMENTS due by next Tuesday have been posted.
--NOTES. Please read
the postscript to this week's classes and the preview of next week's classes.
--EMAIL. I'll next be checking class email on Sunday evening.
April 17 (Thursday)
--Sorry for the delay, but I'll post next week's assignments on Friday
afternoon (4/18). (It's starting to get hectic.)
April 16 (Wednesday)
--FINAL PROJECT. Remember that this is a good time to be sending me
drafts (or partial drafts) for review.
--WRITING CENTER. Dr. Debi Reese is on the lookout for students
interested in serving as tutors in the Writing Center: good experience, good colleagues,
good working conditions, and an hourly wage. Stop by Gamble 109 to fill out an
application.
--CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS. All students are invited to participate in next
week's conference:
April 25 at the Armstrong Center:
poster exhibition--6:30 p.m.
Speaker Karin Ryan (director of the Human Rights program at the Carter Center)--7:30
Reception--8:30 (please send me an email to make a reservation)
April 26 at University Hall 157 &
158:
paper presentations & poster exhibition--8 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
April 13 (Sunday)
--NOTES. Please read
the brief preview of this week's classes.
April 10 (Thursday)
--NOTES. Please read
the postscript to this afternoon's class. A brief preview of next week's classes will be
posted over the weekend.
--ASSIGNMENTS due by next Tuesday have been posted.
--EMAIL. I'll next be checking class email on Sunday evening.
April 8 (Tuesday)
--NOTES. Please read
the postscript to this afternoon's class.
--TASTE OF THE SOUTHSIDE. April 10,
5:30-7:30 p.m., Armstrong Center. I'll
let class out a few minutes early on Thursday so that you can stop by the Armstrong Center
and pick up a good dinner. Just bring your AASU ID, and if anybody asks, say that you're
staff. Details:
Please join the Alumni
Association in welcoming the Chamber of Commerce and the business community to our campus.
We are hosting this annual event in the Armstrong Center. AASU ID is required for FREE
admission. SPOUSES ARE WELCOME TO JOIN YOU FOR A FEE OF $10.00. NO CHILDREN ALLOWED.
--BIG CASH PRIZES. Submission deadline for the Student Research Symposium has
been extended to 5:00 p.m. on April 9. (That means there haven't been many submissions.)
If you don't know what a "poster presentation" is (or even if you do), I'll be
happy to help anybody who wants to give this competition a try. Details:
Student Research Symposium
A Research Poster Competition to be held
April 23, 2008 University
Hall Atrium, AASU
Coordinated by the Research & Scholarship Committee
Graduate Awards Undergrad Awards
1st
Place $500
1st Place $500
2nd
Place $350
2nd
Place $350
3rd
Place $200
3rd
Place $200
4th
Place $100
4th
Place $100
5th
Place $ 50
5th
Place $ 50
Research Poster Competition: Posters
on all aspects of the arts and sciences, education, and health professions are solicited. Posters are judged by members of the AASU faculty
and staff. The top undergraduate and graduate
posters from each College within the university are eligible to receive monetary awards.
Research Poster Abstract Submission:
Submit your abstract and the
information requested below in the body of a plain text email to: rsabs@armstrong.edu and the following information
must be provided:
?
Abstract
title
?
Presenting
author name(s) and email address of primary author
?
Faculty
advisor name(s) and email address
?
Department
or Program of presenting author
?
Status
(undergraduate or graduate) of presenting author
?
Abstract
(= 400 words)
Research
completed between Summer 2007 and Spring 2008, including that produced by students who
have since graduated, is eligible.
APRIL 9 |
Deadline
for abstract submission to the Research competition
|
April 23 (9 AM- 3 PM) |
Research posters on display in the
University Hall Atrium |
April 23, 12-1:30 PM |
Poster judging takes place (poster
participants should be present at the judging session to answer questions) |
April 25 12-1:30 PM
(tentative)
|
Awards ceremony at which Research Poster Award announcements will be
made. Refreshments will be served. Participants in both competitions and
participating members of the AASU community are encouraged to attend. |
April 7 (Monday)
--Listen to Sam Weller. An invitation from Dr. Beth Howells:
Please join us for a lecture by Sam Weller, author of
acclaimed biography The Bradbury Chronicles and
special guest of the Big Read.
He will discuss his life as a writer of fiction, non-fiction, and graphic novels; his work
as a journalist; and his experience creating a writer's life as a writer and teacher in
Chicago: 2:30 on Tuesday, April 15, in Solms 110.
April 6 (Sunday)
--NOTES. Please read
the preview of this week's classes. Previews and postscripts from March 25-April 3 have
been moved to Notes Archive D.
--FINAL PROJECT. Remember to bring to class on Tuesday a hard copy
of the text you'll be analyzing for your final project.
April 3 (Thursday)
--NOTES. Please read
the postscript to this afternoon's class. A brief preview of next week's classes will be
posted over the weekend.
--ASSIGNMENTS due by next Tuesday have been posted.
--EMAIL. I'll next be checking class email on Sunday evening.
April 2 (Wednesday)
--FINAL PROJECT. If you're still searching for the perfect topic
(see news items below for March 30 and April 1), consider choosing an enduring speech--one
that has outlasted its immediate historical occasion and rhetorical situation. In addition
to considering the speeches you can find online (at such sites as American Rhetoric), have
a look at the more than 200 titles in the
collection Lend Me Your Hears: Great Speeches in History (selected by William
Safire). If you see a title or two that interests you, let me know (before next
Tuesday) and I'll give you a hard copy of the speech.
April 1 (Tuesday)
--NOTES. Please read
the postscript to this afternoon's class.
--FINAL PROJECT. If you have questions or concerns about your final
topic, be sure to check with me before next Tuesday, when topics (and copies of
texts) are due. Beginning on April 8, we'll be discussing drafts, not topics. See the item
below for additional topic ideas.
--FYI: More information about AASU's Office of Career Services here.
March 30 (Sunday)
--NOTES. Please read
the preview of this week's classes.
--FINAL PROJECT. Topic (and photocopy
of your chosen text) due: any time after March 30 but no later than our class
meeting on Tuesday, April 8. 2008. In the meantime, here are some random topic suggestions for the perplexed. All have been written on before with varying
degrees of success. Many (but not all) of these texts can be found online.
-"Preludes," by T.S. Eliot
(poem)
-Hillary Diane Rodham's graduation speech at Wellesley in 1969 (speech)
-Chapter Two of "A Room of One's Own," by Virginia Woolf (nonfiction)
-"I Can't Get That Monster Out of My Mind," by Joan Didion (essay)
-"Summer"--the final chapter of The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
(novel)
"To His Coy Mistress," by Andrew Marvell (poem)
-a chapter from Skinny Legs and All, by Tom Robbins (novel)
-"The Negro Mother," by
Langston Hughes (poem)
-Saddam Hussein's "Death to the Infidels" speech at the start of Gulf War I (in
translation)
-"Mark Twain Stuns the Littery World," by Mark Twain (humor)
-Barbara Jordan's argument for impeaching Richard Nixon (speech)
-Ghost scene (I.5) in Hamlet, by Shakespeare (drama)
-"Dream Horse," by Pablo Neruda (poem, in translation)
-speeches by Veronica Franco in Dangerous Beauty (movie speeches)
-Corinthians 13 (Bible, King James version)
-Ronald Reagan's speech at the 1980 Republican National Convention
-"Letter from Birmingham Jail," by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Finch's closing argument to the jury in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
(novel and film versions compared)
-"Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn," by Mark Twain (comic fable)
-"Seek Wealth" (Ivan Boesky's speech at the Berkeley Business School, 1986)
-"Keep Hope Alive" (Jesse Jackson's speech at the Democratic National Convention
in 1984)
-Phyllis Schlafly's speech opposing the ERA at a Southern Baptists meeting (1979)
-Johnnie Cochran's final summation to the jury in the O.J. Simpson case (speech)
-2005 Kenyon Commencement Address, by David Foster Wallace (speech)
-Larry Flynt's speech on pornography in The People vs. Larry Flynt (movie speech)
-Harry Truman's announcement that atomic bombs had been dropped on Japan (speech)
-Chapter One of A Vindication of the Rights of Women, by Mary Wollstonecraft
(nonfiction)
-"Andrea Del Arto," by Robert Browning (poem)
-Ida B. Wells-Barnett's speech on lynchings to the NAACP (speech)
-Paul's Letter to the Romans (Bible, King James version)
-Chapter One of Their Eyes Were
Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston (novel)
-"Death of an Elephant," by George Orwell (essay)
-Duke Ellington's speech in 1941 on the contributions of African Americans (speech)
-Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech
-a few pages from The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner (novel)
-Eulogy for Princess Diana by her brother, the Earl of Spencer (speech)
-"Desolation Row" and "Ballad of a Thin Man," by Bob Dylan (song
lyrics)
-Chapter 11 from Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen (novel)
-Jane Addams Tribute to George Washington (speech)
-Sarah Brady's speech on Gun Violence in America to the Democratic National Convention
-Richard Nixon's resignation speech
-any one letter from Letters from the Earth, by Mark Twain
-Bon's letter in Absalom, Absalom (novel)
-"Education," by E.B. White (essay)
-"The Geese," by E.B. White (essay)
-"How It Feels to Be Colored Me," by Zora Neale Hurston (essay)
-"The Chrsanthemums," by John Steinbeck (short story)
-General Patton's Address to the 3rd Army (speech)
-"In Bed," by Joan Didion (essay)
-excerpts from "Here Is New York," by E.B. White (nonfiction)
-Chapter One of The Witches, by Roald Dahl (children's fiction)
-"Imelda," by Richard Selzer (essay)
-side two of "Abbey Road," by the Beatles (song lyrics)
March 27 (Thursday morning/evening)
--NOTES. Please read
the postscript to this afternoon's class. A brief preview of
next week's classes will be posted over the weekend.
--ASSIGNMENTS due by next Tuesday have been posted.
--Graded Midterm Exams can be
collected at any time from the gray box on the counter in Solms 211. (Hold on to the
envelope: you can reuse it when you submit your final project.) Final percentage grade
includes two points for showing up and a three-point curve. Letter-grade distribution:
A or A- -- 9 students (with two grades of 100%)
B+, B, or B- -- 2 students
C+, C, or C- -- 4 students
D+, D, or D- -- 1 student
Could there be some grade inflation here? Obviously. But then the midterm is primarily a
dry run for the final, so I cut you some slack--especially on the "So what?"
portion of the questions on Part A--and most definitely on the analysis for Part B. Will
the final exam be more challenging than the midterm, and will I grade your final-exam
answers more severely? Yes, indeed. But you should be ready for the challenge if you:
(1) carefully review the sample answers to questions on Parts A and C;
(2) begin work early on your final project (and let me see your drafts) so that you gain
extensive experience conducting a genuine rhetorical analysis;
(3) carefully study the sample analyses I'll be handing out over the next few weeks;
(4) continue to review your terms as we examine texts for class--with a particular
emphasis now on the specific effects created by figures and tropes in context;
(5) follow the directions on the final exam--and let the point-values of the questions
determine how much time you spend working out an answer.
--GUIDELINES FOR FINAL PROJECT
were posted last Thursday. You'll find a link to the guidelines at the top of each page
(above the Babel logo) on this course site. I encourage you to start sending me your topic
ideas as soon as possible.
March 25 (Tuesday)
--NOTES. Previews and
postscripts from Feb. 14 to Mar. 25 have been moved to NOTES ARCHIVE C.
--NOTES. Please read
the brief postscript to this afternoon's class.
March 23 (Sunday)
--NOTES. Please read
the preview of this week's classes.
--Representative Student Answers
to the questions on Part A of the midterm exam were posted last Tuesday evening. Answers to Part C were posted
on Thursday. Graded midterm exams will be returned by this Thursday (3/27) at the latest.
--GUIDELINES FOR FINAL PROJECT were
posted last Thursday. You'll find a link to the guidelines at the top of each page (above
the Babel logo) on this course site.
March 20 (Thursday)
--GUIDELINES FOR FINAL PROJECT have
been posted.
--Representative Student Answers
to the questions on Part A of the midterm exam were posted on Tuesday evening. Answers to Part C have now also
been posted.
--ASSIGNMENTS due by next Tuesday have been posted. A brief preview of
next week's classes will be posted at NOTES over the weekend.
March 18 (Tuesday)
--EXAMS. See Representative Student Answers
to the questions on Part A of today's midterm exam.
March 17 (Monday)
--EXAMS. To reduce your labors a bit on the midterm exam,
I've made a few slight adjustments to the point values: Part A is worth 30 points (five
questions worth six points each); Part B, 20 points; Part C, 48 points (16 questions worth
three points each)--and two points free just for showing up. Sample answers to Parts A and
B of the exam will be posted here on Tuesday evening; sample answers to Part C on Thursday
evening.
You were encouraged to make up questions for the midterm exam and post them to the
bulletin board. Two original questions were posted; one of those two appears on the exam.
Check back on Thursday evening for assignments due next week.
March 14 (Friday)
--BULLETIN BOARD. A final encouragement to post sample questions and answers to the class
bulletin board--your last opportunity to make up questions for the midterm exam. Remember, if an ad pops up
when you open the forum, just close it--and you should find the forum page sitting behind
it.
March 11 (Tuesday)
--I've finished posting comments (in
red) to your examples and evaluations for both the A-G Terms and the H-Z terms. Stop back later this week for a few last study tips.
--BULLETIN BOARD. Don't miss the opportunity to post sample
questions and answers to the class bulletin board. (If an ad page pops up, just close
it--the forum page should be sitting behind it.
March 10 (Monday night)
--A-G TERMS. I've added my comments (in red) to your examples and evaluations for A-G Terms. If you have any questions
about my comments, shoot me an email. I'm still working on the H-Z
terms: all comments should be up
by Tuesday evening.
--BULLETIN BOARD. Don't miss the opportunity to post sample
questions and answers to the class bulletin board.
March 10 (Monday morning)
--Please check back
this evening for my updates to the terms pages.
--BULLETIN BOARD. Don't miss the opportunity to post sample
questions and answers to the class bulletin board.
March 6 (Thursday)
--NOTES. Please read the postscript to
this afternoon's class. The next updates to this site will be on Sunday, March 9.
--BULLETIN BOARD. You may begin posting sample review
questions and answers to the class bulletin
board (aka forum) at any time.
March 5 (Wednesday)
--H-Z terms. I've posted your evaluations of the examples for the H-Z
terms. (If I've missed anybody's contributions, send me an email.) Over the weekend I'll
return to both pages of examples and try to clear up some confusions by posting a few
comments of my own. I encourage you to use these pages next week as part of your review
for the midterm. (Prizes will be awarded after the spring break.)
--BULLETIN BOARD. You may begin posting sample review
questions and answers to the class bulletin
board (aka forum) at any time.
March 4 (Tuesday)
--NOTES. Please read
the postscript to this afternoon's class.
--EXAMS. An outline of the midterm exam has been posted at the Examinations page, along with a link to midterm review questions. Information regarding exam dates was posted here on February 20.
--BULLETIN
BOARD. You may begin
posting sample review questions and answers to the class bulletin board (aka forum) at any
time. At the top of the board you'll find
instructions that I posted last fall. Please follow the same instructions, but disregard
the October date. Instead, keep in mind that by March 15, 2008 I will have finished making
up our exam.
--H-Z terms. On Wednesday night I'll
finish posting your evaluations of the examples for the H-Z terms.
March 2 (Sunday)
--NOTES. Please read
the brief preview of this week's classes.
February 28 (Thursday)
--NOTES. Please read
the brief postscript to this afternoon's class. A brief preview of next week's classes
will be posted over the weekend. Early next week I'll begin posting information about the
midterm exam.
--ASSIGNMENTS due by next Tuesday (3/4) and Thursday (3/6) have been
posted.
--A-G TERMS ASSIGNMENT. Your comments (Standouts and Puzzlers), if
submitted by today's 4:30 deadline, have all been added to the A-G TERMS page.
Next week (right after I post your evaluations of H-Z terms), I'll add my comments
to both pages--and attempt to clarify definitions of examples that have been identified as
puzzlers or as both standouts and puzzlers. I may also explain why some
of the standouts may not be quite as appropriate as some readers think they are.
Purely optional: Some of the sharpest evaluations are self-evaluations:
see, for instance, Leslie's comment on her own example of "crot," Alex on his
example of "gradatio," Eva on her example of "apposition," and Jessica
on her example of "assonance." Between now and Tuesday, if you'd like to add a
brief comment/clarification to any of your A-G examples, just send me an email. (As
always, fill in the subject line appropriately and include your name in any email message
that you send.)
--MIDTERM is FEBRUARY 29--the last day
to withdraw with a W. Who should probably
drop? Anybody who has missed four or more classes and/or failed to turn in exercises--and
who's surprised to hear that we covered about a third of the terms in the first two weeks
of the semester (see NOTES). If you're uncertain, track me down on Friday afternoon.
February 26 (Tuesday)
--NOTES. Please read
the brief postscript to this afternoon's class.
--H-Z TERMS ASSIGNMENT. If you submitted your H-Z examples by today's deadline,
they're posted. Remember that evaluations of A-G Terms are due this Thursday.
Similar evaluations of H-Z Terms will be due next Tuesday (March 4).
--SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES. If you're a strong student with a good GPA (at
least 3.0) and you plan to be at Armstrong at least another year and
you're not currently receiving an AASU scholarship, please send me an e-mail if you're
interested in contending for a scholarship. Faculty have been asked to put some names
forward, and I've no doubt that some of you are eligible.
February 24 (Sunday)
--NOTES. Please read
the brief preview of this week's classes.
February 21 (Thursday)
--ASSIGNMENTS due by next Tuesday (2/26) and Thursday (2/28) have been
posted.
--NOTES. Please read
the postscript to this afternoon's class. A brief preview of next week's classes will be
posted over the weekend.
February 20 (Wednesday)
--A-G TERMS ASSIGNMENT. Your A-G examples are posted, and
guidelines for the next two steps in the terms exercise (due February 26 and 28) appear at
ASSIGNMENTS. Additional assignments (readings from our texts and
handouts) that will be due next week will be posted Thursday evening (February 21), as
usual.
--MIDTERM. Although we'll wait until immediately after spring break
to take the midterm exam (in two parts, on March 18 and 20), midterm itself (the last day
to withdraw from classes with a W) is on February 29. If your rhetoric buddy has gone
missing and/or hasn't submitted exercises, you might encourage him or her to withdraw from
the course before next Friday.
February 19 (Tuesday)
--NOTES. Please read
the postscript to this afternoon's class.
--A-G TERMS ASSIGNMENT. I've sent brief replies to those who have emailed
their examples of terms. Don't hesitate to get started on next week's assignment--same
guidelines (five examples of five different terms, attached to your email as a Word doc
and pasted in as a message), but this time focusing on terms H-Z. I should have your A-G
terms along with revisions to ad analyses posted by the end of this week.
--GRAMMAR & RHETORICAL TERMS. I have a hunch that some of the terms may be
puzzling to you because your memory of basic grammar may be rusty. Please have a good look
at Top 24 Grammatical Terms
That We Should Have Learned in School (more about grammar on Thursday). Btw, just about everybody seems to be baffled by apposition (which is also a
grammatical concept--appositive):
check out the short identification exercise (with answers) at Practice in
Using Appositives.
--FREE LUNCH on
Friday, February 29 (12:10-1:15 in
Solms 207). Please let me know if any of you would be interested in joining Petra Kohlmann
(Regional Education Manager for The New York Times), me, and a few other faculty
for an informal lunch and workshop on February 29. Ms. Kohlmann's goal is to persuade
faculty to use The New York Times in their classes. She's also looking for a
student who might be interested in distributing copies of The Times on
campus--presumably for a fat paycheck. In any case, it's a free lunch, and nobody will try
to sell you anything.
February 17 (Sunday)
--NOTES. Please read
the previews of this week's classes.
--AD ANALYSES. During the week I'll be posting your revisions and
critiques.
February 14 (Thursday)
--NOTES. Please read
the postscript to this afternoon's class. Notes from Jan 24-Feb. 7 have been moved to NOTES ARCHIVE B. A brief
preview of next Tuesday's class will be posted over the weekend.
--ASSIGNMENTS due by next Tuesday (2/19) have been posted.
February 12 (Tuesday)
--ASSIGNMENTS. I've sent brief email replies to those who sent me revisions
of their ad analyses. I'm afraid that it didn't dawn on me
until I was on (more precisely "in") the plane Saturday morning that a few of
the text-heavy ads would be hard to read online. If you had trouble reading the text in
the online version of your ad, I've left the original ads in a folder on the counter in
Solms 211. If you want (purely optional), you can pick up your ad and then send me a
re-revision by this Friday (Feb 15).
February 7 (Thursday)
--ASSIGNMENTS due by next Tuesday (2/12) and Thursday (2/14) have been
posted.
--NOTES. Please read
the postscript to this afternoon's class. A brief preview of next week's classes will be
posted Friday evening.
--EMAIL. Because I'll be out of town this weekend at a conference, I
won't be able to respond to class emails again until Tuesday evening (2/12).
February 5 (Tuesday)
--NOTES. Please read
the brief postscript to this afternoon's class.
--ASSIGNMENTS. Guidelines for the online assignment (due next
Tuesday) involving your Ad
Analyses has been posted. Additional assignments due next week will be posted this
Thursday after class as usual.
--ANALYZING PERSUASIVE APPEALS IN
ADVERTISEMENTS: 2008 has been posted. A
link also appears at the CLASS
PRODUCTIONS page.
February 2 (Saturday)
--NOTES. Please read
the preview of next week's classes.
January 31 (Thursday)
--ASSIGNMENTS due by next Tuesday (2/5) have been posted.
--NOTES. Please read
the postscript to this afternoon's class. A brief preview of next week's classes will be
posted over the weekend.
--FREE EVENTS:
-"Ant or Ahnt? Dialect and GPA": presentation by professor of
communication Dr. Elizabeth Colas at 12:10 in Solms 110 on Friday, February 1.
-"Changing Views of America from a Chinese Perspective": presentation by Dr.
Zhou Yi, Chair of the Department of Tourism and Culture at Sichuan University, China, at
12:10 in Solms 110 on Wednesday, February 6.
-AASU/SSU Student Conference on Global & Domestic Human Rights Awareness (April 25-26,
2008): deadline for submitting abstracts to Dr. Jason Tadlock in the Dept. of History,
February 8, 2008.
January 29 (Tuesday)
--NOTES. Please read
the postscript to this afternoon's class.
--AD ANALYSES. Next week
we'll be going online to look at some of your work for this assignment.
--FREE EVENTS:
-AASU Study-Abroad Fair from 11:30 to 1:30 on January 30. "Please announce to your classes that the next AASU
Study Abroad Fair will be Wednesday, January 30 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the MCC
Faculty Dining Room (next to Starbucks). We will be showcasing the 2008 spring break and
summer AASU programs in Greece, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Viet Nam, China, Spain,
Costa Rica, London, Paris, Madrid, Bonn, St. and Peterburg as well as semester abroad
programs in Siena (Italy), Swansea (Wales), Estonia, Magdeburg (Germany) and our numerous
partner schools in the ISEP program. Our study abroad faculty members and financial aid
staff will be there to assist our students."
-Soul Food Luncheon/African American History Month Kick-off. "Come enjoy a wonderful
presentation by Richard L Scott, joyous singing by the AASU Gospel Choir
and a scrumptious meal. February 6, 2008 (Wednesday) 12:00 noon, Armstrong Center Ballroom A, Please sign
up in Student Affairs by February 4, 2008."
January 27 (Sunday)
--NOTES. Please read
the preview of this week's classes.
January 24 (Thursday)
--NOTES. Please read
the postscript to this evening's class. Notes from Jan 10-Jan. 24 have been moved to NOTES ARCHIVE A. A brief
preview of next Tuesday's class will be posted over the weekend.
--ASSIGNMENTS due by next Tuesday (1/29) have been posted.
--AD ANALYSES. We've scanned in your ads, and over the weekend I'll work
on posting your analyses online. Stay tuned.
_______
January 22 (Tuesday)
--NOTES. Please read
the postscript to this evening's class and the brief preview of Thursday's class (posted
at NOTES).
--AD ANALYSIS. I've sent brief emails
to all whose ad analyses showed up (as Word docs) by this evening. If you didn't send the
initial email assignment (due Jan. 13), your report may not have made it through (I picked
three out of the spam box). Once we finish scanning the ads you turned in this afternoon,
I'll post samples of your work for the class to read and evaluate--perhaps by this
weekend. A few tips:
-Whenever you send me an attachment, make sure that your name is on the attachment.
-When you send any assignment by email, distinguish it by including your name in the
subject line.
-Never send an email without filling in the subject line.
-Send attachments as Word docs. If you don't have Word, send it as plain text (.txt).
January 20 (Sunday)
--NOTES. Please read
the preview of this week's classes (posted at NOTES). (Links
marked purely optional are intended to complement and enhance assigned work; it's your choice
whether or not to take advantage of them.)
January 17 (Thursday)
--NOTES. Please read
(and follow the links at) the postscript at NOTES to this afternoon's class. A brief preview of next Tuesday's class will be posted over the weekend.
--ASSIGNMENTS due by next Tuesday (1/22) have been posted.
--SYLLABUS. If you haven't yet read the syllabus carefully, please do so
now. Find out how to use this website and how often you should visit it. Know the policies
on attendance and what to do if you miss a class. Understand your responsibilities to one
another regarding notes and missed handouts. If you have questions about any of the
policies in the syllabus, let me know.
January 15 (Tuesday)
--EMAILS. The first class
assignment was due this past Sunday. The information I requested remains posted at ASSIGNMENTS.
--NOTES. Please read
the postscript to today's class and the preview of Thursday's class (posted at NOTES).
--TERMS. The old Glossary of
Rhetorical Terms has been replaced by the new Tool
Kit for Rhetorical Analysis.
January 13 (Sunday)
--EMAILS. I've sent brief replies
to the nine students who completed the email assignment that was due this evening. (See ASSIGNMENTS for January 13. See SYLLABUS: Course Website.)
--NOTES. Please read the brief preview of
Tuesday's class (posted at NOTES).
--NEWS. If you've already fallen behind, please be sure to read
the news items below (posted on January 10).
January 10 (Thursday)
--ASSIGNMENTS due by next Sunday (1/13), Tuesday (1/15) and Thursday
(1/17) have been posted.
--NOTES. Please read (and follow the
links at) the postscript at NOTES to
this afternoon's class. A brief preview of next Tuesday's class will be
posted this weekend.
--EMAIL DUE BY THIS SUNDAY. No later than 9:00
p.m. on January 13, please send me an e-mail (at engl5730@lycos.com)
so that I can add your address to the class e-mail address book. In your e-mail,
please let me know (briefly) your major (English majors, please specify "straight
English" or "Communications") and your career goals (if any).
January 7 (Monday)
--The first class meeting of ENGL 5730 in the spring
semester will be at 4:30 in Solms 207 on Thursday, January 10. Required course texts:
-Classical
Rhetoric for the Modern Student, 4th ed., by Corbett & Connors ($23.74
at Amazon for a new copy);
-Thank
You for Arguing, by Jay Heinrichs ($11.16
at Amazon for a new copy).
