Day 4

• Quiz
• Discussion over reading
• Discuss zines/topics

Homework: 

Due 9/6: look at the zines posted on the blog and answer the following questions:

1. Which did you like the best and why
2. What made you interested in the zine?
3. What was the biggest turnoff?
4. What tips will you take from these finished zines and apply to your own?

Read Sign, Structure and Play (posted on Blackboard)

Day 3

• Homework discussion
• What type of writing will you have to do after college?
• What are 3 things you know more about than anyone in class?
• Picking a topic

Homework:

Read "The Fourth State of Matter" and bring printed copy to class for points.

Finish worksheets and turn them in next class.

Day 2

• Names, Zombie role, homework check
• In groups: What is rhetoric?  How is it controlled?  Who controls it?

1. How was rhetoric controlled/shaped in these videos?  
2. How was it enforced/spread? 
3. What are some ways rhetoric is being controlled now and by whom?
4. Have you ever experienced ways in which you noticed someone shaping rhetoric around you?

Homework: bring a photo of a non-verbal way rhetoric is being controlled (can contain words, but not spoken)

Day 1--Welcome!

First Day stuff:

• Important syllabus stuff
• Introductions
• About me

Homework:

• bring in proof that you have the two books required for class or proof that you have ordered them. (On Writing Well and Art of Fact)