Rhetorical Analysis of Directions

We look at your examples.

In your daybook, create a chart for each of the terms involved in a rhetorical situation and your examples that you brought to class, like this:

MP3 Player:
Audience-
Purpose-
Genre-
Stance-
Media-

Effectiveness:

What does this look like for the Lego directions?

You pick your Lego pieces out.

Everyone prints out a page with the required class heading on it.

Homework:

1. Create a set of directions for putting your Legos together. Type them up and bring TWO printed copies to class on Monday. This is so two different students can follow your directions and write on them as needed.

2. Create an answer key picture -- either drawn on the green sheet or a printed photo off your phone.

3.  On Monday bring your bag of Legos, the answer key picture, and two copies of the directions to class. Be ready to build TWO sets of directions by others.

Rhetoric

Definition?

 Here's a video to help: What is Rhetoric?

We discuss Audience + Purpose + Genre + Stance + Media/ Design

I hand out green assignment sheets.

Thinkwrite: 1. What differences between the two sides do you see? 2. Which is more effective? Explain.

Homework:

1. Find two examples of a set of directions. Look for user manuals, directions for putting something together, or doing an assignment. Bring hard copies to class tomorrow; you can print something short off the internet. 

 

Professionalism

We discuss professionalism at work and at school.

Homework:

1. Read pages 53-63 in  the Field Guide.

2. In your daybook, write today's date. Then think of TWO things you have written lately. For each of them, list the purpose, audience, and genre. These can be any type (genre) of writing.

My examples:
1. email-- Purpose: to get a class cancelled
                 Audience: the registrar, Donna Havener
                Genre: email

2. Facebook post --  Purpose: to make my friends laugh
                                 Audience: Facebook friends, especially one it was about
                                 Genre: Facebook post

Welcome

This is the place for the daily happenings in class and HOMEWORK.

I will hand out the course information sheet and calendar. Copies are also available in the Moodle version of this course.

A. On paper, write the answers to these questions about the yellow handout:

1. Copy down my name. (You may call me Mrs. Loden, Ms. Loden, or Ms. Kate. Not a professor.)

2.  Read the "Course Objectives" section at the top. Summarize the four goals of this class.

3. Circle the goal in #2 that you think is the most important for you to practice this quarter.

4. How many points is the daybook worth?

5. How many papers (projects) with feedback will you write?

6. How many "solo" projects (papers) will you write?

7. How many "polished" pages do you have to write to skip the final?

8. What do you think an English teacher might mean by "polished" pages?

9. How can you get a zero on a paper?

We discuss.

B. Now, on the back of your sheet of paper, please do some thinking/writing. Explain the difference between a professional and an amateur.

Please remind me to collect these sheets at the end of class!

Homework:
1. Get your books if you have not, including something to use for a daybook and a folder to hold all your graded papers.

2. On the first page in the daybook, write today's date and "Professionalism in __________." Underneath that title, please fill one page with your thoughts on what the difference between "a professional" and "professionalism" is, and what professionalism in your future career would look like.