A guide for how to read the schedule:
Date
Topic of the day
Description
Due Date for listed item: --
[big red button: Media for today]
Key concepts
You assigned CEA
[big red button: link to cea]
Your assigned Reading
[big red button: link to reading]
Week 1
T 1/17
Welcome day
Syllabus overview, what is rhetoric?, Fundamental writing elements
Due today: --
Key concepts
Rhetoric
Composition
Structure
Thesis
So what
Arrangement
paragraphing
CEAs --
Reading: Syllabus and General course policies
Th 1/19
Introducing project 1
and urgency, topic workshop, observation activity
Due: CEA 1 due Friday before 11:59 pm (TCU online)
Key concepts
Kairos
Exigence
Week 2
T 1/24
Key concepts
rhetorical audience
intended and secondary audience
analysis
Th 1/26
Key concepts
Appeals/The triad
Syllogism/ Enthymeme
Paradigm
Maxim
De-/Inductive reason
Comparison
Cause/effect
Exemplification
Elaboration
Week 3
T 1/31
Campus closed due to snow
all in the feels
Due today: --
Key concepts
Th 2/2
Campus closed due to snow
Due today:
Key concepts
CEAs
Reading:
Week 4
T 2/7
Key concepts
Comparison
Cause/effect
Exemplification
Elaboration
Th 2/9
Key concepts
Project 1: Rhetorical Analysis due to TCU Online MONDAY 2/13 at 11:59 pm
Week 5
Th 2/16
Nailing down a topic for project 2
Student work samples and workshops
Due Friday: CEA 4 Due
Key concepts
Week 6
T 2/21
Key concepts
Identification
Consubstantiality
Th 2/23
Key concepts
epideictic
identification
CEAs --
Reading: Syllabus and General course policies
Week 7
T 2/28
Positionality
What is positionality and how do we use it to be ethical rhetors
Due today: --
Key concepts
Identity
positionality
intersectionality
CEAs
Reading: Reading: Listen to Ep 98 "Runner in the Night" of Myths and Legends Podcast. (Available on Spotify)
Th 3/2
Positionality/intersectionality
Due: CEA 6 Due Friday before 11:59pm
Key concepts
Identity
positionality
intersectionality
Week 8
T 3/7
Key concepts
Arrangement
CEAs --
Reading: Syllabus and General course policies
Th 3/9
Workshop for P2
set up now, enjoy spring break later
Due today: --
Key concepts
CEAs --
Reading: Syllabus and General course policies
Week 9
3/10-20
Spring Break
No class
Due today: --
Key concepts
CEAs --
Reading --
Week 10
T 3/21
Key concepts
Genre
Conventions
CEAs --
Reading:
Th 3/23
Key concepts
Critical Imagination
Revision
Project 2: Persuasive Essay due to TCU Online MONDAY 3/27 at 11:59 pm
Week 11
T 3/28
Key concepts
CEAs
Reading:
Th 3/30
Conference Week
No in-class meeting
Due today: --
Key concepts
CEAs --
Reading:
Week 12
T 4/4
Key concepts
Th 4/6
Good Friday Holiday
No Class
Due today: CEA 7
Key concepts
CEAs --
Reading --
Week 13
T 4/11
Key concepts
Accommodation
Refutation
CEAs --
Reading: Syllabus and General course policies
Th 4/13
Counterarguments
Due today: --
Key concepts
Rhetoric
Argument
CEAs --
Reading: Syllabus and General course policies
Week 14
T 4/18
Genre workshop
Locating genre conventions, tools in the genre, how to structure arguments in the genre.
Due today: CEA 8
Key concepts
Genre
genre conventions
Th 4/20
Asynchronous workday
Goal: Begin drafting for next weeks workshops
Due Friday: CEA 9
Key concepts
CEAs --
Reading:
Week 15
Th 4/27
Workshop week
Due Friday: CEA 10 and 11 (reminder, 11 optional)
Key concepts
CEAs --
Reading:
Week 16
W 5/3
Study Days Start
No Class
Finals Week