Unit 3 Rhetoric In the World

Week 10: 

Day 1:

Reading Due: Vieira, Writing’s Potential to Heal: Women Writing from Their Bodies

In Class Activity:

-Have you ever used writing as a form of healing? If so, write about a time writing helped you. 

-If you do not use writing to heal, is there another form of expression you use?

-How does writing shape identity? Community? (Post to forum on moodle)

Day 2: 

Reading Due: The Impact of the Me Too Movement’s Journalism

Writing Due: 3 Annotated Bibliography Entries (Writing Workshop)

Week 11:

Day 1:

Reading Due: Kerstin Pilz: The Healing Power of Emotion.

Day 2:

Reading Due: Rhetorical Analysis in the Real World: A Useful Thinking Tool

Writing Due: Annotated Bibliography Introductory Essay Draft (Writing Workshop)

Week 12:

Day 1:

Reading Due: Digital Rhetoric in Social Media  

In-class Activity: How do you see rhetoric in social media? Do you think digital rhetoric has negative impacts on social media? (post to forum on Moodle)

Day 2:

Reading Due: Writers on Writing; Before a Rendezvous With the Muse, First Select the Music AND Setting the Tone: How Listening to Music Can Inspire Fiction Writers

In Class: Research Presentations 

Week 13:

Day 1:

Reading Due: “Disentangling Economic News Effects: The Impact of Tone, Uncertainty, and Issue on Public Opinion.” 

In Class: Research Presentations

Day 2:

Reading Due: Sports and the Life of the Mind: Sports Media in the Freshman Composition Classroom AND The rhetoric of sports communication

Writing Due: Annotated Bibliography Introductory Essay Polished Draft (Writing Workshop)

Week 14:

Day 1:

Tone of the President’s Immigration Rhetoric 

Day 2:

In Class: Final Project & Final Portfolio Work Time + Course Evaluations

Week 15:

Day 1:

In Class: Final Project & Final Portfolio Work Time + course evaluations 

Day 2: 

In Class: Final Project & Final Portfolio Work Time + Public Syllabus Exploration/ Discussion

Writing Due: Final Portfolio