Draft #1 Due

I check in your drafts.  Then you read and comment on two example papers.
The Slate link.  The Dove ad.

Homework:

1.  Read "What's Love Got to do With It?" on pages 501-504.

2.  In your daybook, write a summary of this reading that is at least a paragraph long.  Explain the writer's point, and how she backs it up.

3.  Then write a paragraph explaining your reaction/opinion about this topic.

4. Look closely at the reading and answer question #3 on page 505. You will need to write at least a paragraph to do this well.

The Three Appeals

First we look at this. Then what about figuring out your audience?

The word manipulation.

What are the three rhetorical appeals?

Why should we be aware of this? Well.....

Now you have time to take notes or ask questions about your ad and the design features on the back of the red assignment sheet.

Homework:

1. Draft #1 due tomorrow.

2. Buy a bluebook for next week.

Writing About Images

First of all, look at the graphic on page 286 in Bedford.  Since doing the reading, you now know what this graphic refers to. 

In your daybook, please copy down the information, but redesign the graphic.  For instance, look at this. Put the exact same information down on the page, but change the layout.  Don't change the meaning of the connections between the ideas, however.

Now you will practice doing some of this.  Look at the pictures on pages 134-136 in Bedford.  Open your daybook to a two page spread.  On the left-most side, create a list of items from the checklist on the back of your red assignment sheet.  Then across the top label a spot for each of the pictures: Sudan, Guatemala, U.S.  Create columns of analysis for each picture.

Homework:

1.  Nail down your image choice and bring it to class tomorrow. Begin making notes about your picture using the red checklist.

Rhetoric Again

Look back through your daybook and find the definition of rhetoric.  If you can't, look it up.  Everyone write it down again. And what makes writing effective?

Now.  Look at "The Fall of Icarus" on my desktop.  We discuss its rhetoric.  Then you look at this photo.

Look at pages 285-300 in The Bedford Guide.

I hand out the assignment sheet for this paper.

Homework:

1.  Find an ad that you want to write about.  Look either in magazines or online. Bring it, or a copy of it, to class tomorrow.

2.  Read pages 286-300 in The Bedford Guide.