Aristotle's Equation

We start here.

Audience + Purpose + Genre = Style (how it looks) and Content (what it says)

We look at p. 15 in Bedford and consider the equation for each. Which is more effective?

Now we look at your directions.
 
In your daybook, create a chart for each of the terms in the "equation" and your direction examples that you brought to class, like this:

MP3 Player:
Audience-
Purpose-
Genre-
Style-
Content-

 After filling in your chart, think about the effectiveness of each of your examples.  What specific choices in style and content work or do not work?

Your first writing project is writing directions for a small Lego creation.  I give you the handouts now, and you pick out pieces to take home and write a set of directions for building.

On Monday there will be time during class to type up your directions, and on Tuesday you will build each others' projects (NO PICTURES ALLOWED -- just written directions).

On Wednesday you will build each other's REVISED directions, and on Thursday you will hand in the final version of your directions and all Legos.


Homework:

1.  Fill at least one page (one side) in your daybook describing a situation where you were frustrated by ineffective written directions.  As you describe what happened, try to analyze what the specific problems were with those directions based on today's discussions.

2. Write up  directions for building your project.  Be ready to type them on Monday.

3. TWFTD: rhetoric

4. Note POETRY LOVERS: Crescent Moon Coffee Shop in downtown Lincoln is sponsoring an SCC Illuminations poetry reading this coming Monday, October 7, from 7:00-8:00. And if you want to read something of yours, contact me for more information! SCC Illuminations on Facebook.