Handouts & Links
All handouts require software which can read PDF files, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Handouts
- Original syllabus
- The original syllabus, as distributed 8/23/2004.
- Rhetorical exercises
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- Original rhetorical exercises assignment
- Assignment and schedule of rhetorical exercises (RX).
- Rhetorical exercises, updated
- RX schedule and details for weeks 9-14.
- Sample RX One
- My version of “Look around you and listen...” (ARCS 33 #1).
- Sample RX Two
- A student’s answer to Quintilian’s heuristic (ARCS 33-5 #4).
- Sample RX Three
- Mapping kairos, from a student (ARCS 51 #3).
- Writing portfolio
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- Writing portfolio assignment
- Four small writing assignments: an open letter, a short persuasive talk, a book jacket, and a political leaflet, flyer, or brochure.
- Portfolio peer review
- A procedure for peer-reviewing the portfolio.
- Portfolio frequent comments
- A list of the comments I frequently made on portfolio drafts.
- Writing project assignment
- The final project: a cohesive group of three to five examples of public or persuasive writing.
- Writing project questions & answers
- Questions you asked after reading the project assignment, and my answers.
- Decomposing/recomposing with outlines
- The real reason outlines were invented: a technique for revision.
- Rhetorical microcosm
- A microcosm of our course content—very useful for review.
Links
- Department of English & Journalism
- Bradley’s web page
- University Writing Center
- Hunter S. Thompson archive, from ESPN’s Page Two
© Copyright 2004 C Bradley Dilger.