Remember, no class on April 21. Then on April 28, we’ll have the rhetor presentations. These should be around 10 minutes each—which will take up 60 minutes, leaving 15 for mutual questioning. See the file on the sidebar for guidelines. Feel free to stray from these guidelines if you have interesting things to say. Kate had mentioned dressing up, which would be lots of fun but is up to you. Do handouts.
May 1 drafts of the CCCC proposal are due via email (I changed this from the May 5 date). If you are not intending on submitting to CCCC, then write an abstract of your semester project.
Two sets of guidelines for CCCC proposals:
Set 1:
--Topic (history of rhetoric—most likely)
--Problem: here you develop a fascinating problem that your research will address
--Novelty: What’s your news? Here you can pitch what you’ll contribute to the body of extant knowledge
--Ethos: Suggest your familiarity with recent scholarship by quoting briefly or referring to “what ‘we’ already know.”
Set II (nearly the same but in presentation order)
--Set out the conversation you wish to join—by nature of claims and/or by scholar. Spend time making sure readers know this is an important line of inquiry (version of “problem”)
--Use the “but” or “although” or “however” or “yet” classic academic move defining your niche, your novelty, your news.
--Set out methodology and/or materials
--State implications for 19th c. scholarship or feminist history or race scholarship, etc.
OR if you prefer to use another approach, drawing on what you’ve already written for this assignment, that will work too. We can then tweak it towards CCCC interests.
It’s hard to get at the CCCC proposal information (grrr); you have to initiate the submission process—but you can save and return to your proposal at any time. If you’re working with 2 panel mates, be sure that only one of you actually submits. Start by creating an identity and password and making note. For panel presentations you need a big panel title and individual titles. Collectively you have 5000 characters to work with, so a long bibliography would not be in order. I can show you how to do a short but adequate works cited if need be. These 5000 characters must be divided among a couple of sentences framing the presentations under a common rubric or inquiry and individual titles and short proposals for speaker 1, speaker 2, and speaker 3 (names not placed in the proposal itself). You need a chair and a “submitter” (who do not have to be the same person but who can be the same person). Begin here http://www.ncte.org/cccc/conv and go to “submit proposals” to read these instructions on your own. Individual proposals also have 5000 characters.
May 5 you present on textbooks. Again no more than 10 minutes. I return your CCCC proposals with suggestions. Do handouts.