Week 2

Tuesday, January 15

Memo: What is Professional Writing? Due (post to blog and categorize appropriately)
"Professional Communication: A Rhetorical Focus" (pdf)
In-Class Exercise: A PSA on behalf of Rhetoric
Questions about Forum Roles?

Read: Peeples, 100 – 170 for 1/22
- A note on reading research articles: focus on evidence and implications and pay attention to research methods
Read: "American Collapse"
Post: Launch Posts (Team Gorgias) by 1/21; Query Posts (Team Isocrates) by 1/22; Extension Posts (Team Protagoras) by 1/23; Meta-Comments (Team Corax) by 1/25. All posts due by midnight of the day due
- Remember that Launch Posts are to essential advance a claim (and a supporting argument) with respect to the readings
- For information on Forum Roles click here
- For tips on successful blogging (to use throughout the semester) click here
- Reminder: Students not posting a meta-comment are assigned an additional “floating” post which should take the form of a query or an extension post