Fall, 1997
Tuesday and Thursday 4:00-5:30, EL 207Randy Harris
Hagey Hall 247, x5362Course epitome
Home phone (Milton): (905) 876-3972
E-mail: raha@watarts
Hours: Friday, 9:00-11:00; whenever you can catch me
"The course inductively defines the fields of Rhetoric and Professional Writing through an exploration of contemporary issues in language, writing, and rhetoric, as those issues are identified and dealt with, in the pertinent scholarly and professional journals, by current researchers and their work."Required textsThis course is effectively the introduction to Rhetoric and Professional Writing,the programme, not just the fields. So: (1) while Iâm blathering on at the front you should take a moment out here and there to look around and see who else is in the boat; (2) form study groups, underground anarchorhetoricalist search parties, friendships; because (3) youâre in this together, and (4) you always will be.
RPW is not a largely theoretical course of studies, as you might find in a university with a degree in rhetoric. RPW is not a largely applied course of studies, as you might find in a college or vocational school with a certificate in professional writing. It is a programme that supplies sometimes one, sometimes the other, sometimes a ragout, and brings students to a place where they can think, learn, and contine to grow, in both areas forever and ever, amen.
Brummett, Rhetoric in popular cultureStyle Guide
Brockmann etc., Course readings
Aaron, McArthur, The Little, Brown, Compact HandbookRequirements
Midterm (6 Nov) 30%
Take-home final (1 Dec; 27 Nov) 40%
Final (they’ll tell us) 30%
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11 Sept
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16 Sept
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23 Sept
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30 Sept
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2 Oct
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21 Oct
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23 Oct
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28 Oct
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30 Oct
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4 Nov
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6 Nov
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11 Nov
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18 Nov
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20 Nov
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25 Nov
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2 Dec
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General requirements
You will have to do a lot of reading, and you will have to understand it. You will have to come to class, and you will have to pay attention. You should probably take notes.Midterm
This will be a fact-based, true/false, multiple-choice, short-answer affair. (75 minutes)Take-home Final
On 27 November, I will assign a question, which will depend quite heavily on the readings. On 2 December, you will hand me an essay which answers that question.Final
This will be half-and-half, fact-based and critical analysis. There will be a bunch of true/false, multiple-choice, short-answer questions and a couple of essay questions.Notes
(3 hours)
Do the readings before the assigned class.If you have any questions, please make sure you ask them.
Familiarize yourself with Policy #71, particularly with regard to plagiarism and other forms of cheating.