For Tuesday April 14

ANNOUNCEMENT: NO CLASS APRIL 21.

That’s 2 weeks from today. We WILL meet next week, April 14, to discuss progress on rhetor and textbook projects, on readings, and on the proposed final. We’ll also plan CCCC panels based on topic affinities. Final readings: do artful skimming with reports of interesting details on the blog. See weekly blog posting for assignment.

Rhetor Presentations Due Date: April 28

Address some of the following:

--What else, besides what has been featured in class, did your rhetor write or speak?

--What’s his or her educational background?

--How have your rhetor’s words been disseminated to the public? Include any popularizations in our times.  

--What kinds of speaking or publication venues were available to your rhetor?

--What kinds of audiences did your rhetor write or speak for?

--What secondary scholarship on your rhetor do you find useful? (Provide citations a few comments.)

--In what way does your rhetor add to rhetorical or social theory? (We’ll talk about this question after break.)

10 minutes maximum oral presentation; handout.

Textbook Assignment Due Date: May 5.

By now we’ve created a framework for the textbook assignment. I recommend you order ASAP a couple of textbooks from Interlibrary Loan—just to see if anything circulates and to give yourself some options.  What we have in Zimmerman—as far as I can tell—must be paged; that’s ok. See the little icon where the location usually is posted. The librarians respond very quickly to online requests. You need call number, title, author—that’s it.

Group discussion of textbook findings; handout.

CCCC Proposal Due: May 1

I’ll provide CCCC instructions and a template; you draft according to the template; I edit; you revise; you submit to CCCC on May 8.

Final Exam

I need your input on this one. Would you prefer to substitute the Library Assignment for the exam?

Final Project Deliverables Due Date: May 12