English 1302

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English 1302

• -Kevin Garrison
• 9/7/05

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Questions?
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Class Business

• IM Problems
• Plagiarism Consent Form
• Office Hours
• Wednesday, 1-2 and 5-6
• Friday, 2-3

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1302 The Essentials of College Rhetoric
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Rhetoric

• The art of persuasion. Aristotle
• To effect a change in an audience. Cambell
• Page 2

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Why Rhetoric?

• Rhetoric Power

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Two ways to Change People

• Force
• Rhetoric
• In past, the person who was strongest won. Now,
  it is the person who understands language who
  controls the world.

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Why Rhetoric in 1302?
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First Principle of Rhetoric

• Know your audience.

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Demonstration of Audience Awareness
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Society teaches us to be selfish

• Mirrors
• Hand Sanitizers
• Essay topics for 1302

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Rhetoric is selfish.

• Persuade someone to believe/do what YOU want them
  to believe/do.
• The strange thing about rhetoric is that while
  you are persuading them of a selfish thing, you
  must put them and their concerns first. Negotiate.

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Audience Awareness in Practice

• Look at the letters on pages 9 and 11
• Which one suggests a consideration of audience?

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Draft 1.2 Criteria

• http//ttopic.english.ttu.edu/

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Conventions of the business letter?

• Page 9

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In groups of three

• Read the sample draft on page 9.
• Identify the thesis, the supporting arguments,
  and locate words/ideas/strategies that suggest
  that this person does/does not have an awareness
  of audience.

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Peer Critiques
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Homework

• 1.2 Draft due Friday night
• 2 Peer Critiques due Monday night
• Read pages 50-54