Assignments and Grades: This is a writing flag course, which means we will attend carefully to writing. Informal assignments will include in-class exercises (practice analyses) and peer reviews. In addition, you will each be assigned the task of teaching the class one rhetorical figure, to be selected from a list of options. There will be a multiple choice and short answer test over these rhetorical figures. Your substantial writing assignments, each of which will go through multiple drafts and peer review, will include two short rhetorical analyses of texts, a listicle, and a fully developed argument that makes use of the rhetorical principles you’ve learned in the course. Grades for all assignments will be tied to explicit criteria that will be discussed at length before the fact.
Grade Breakdown:
- 10% Analysis 1 (with meme)
- 20% Analysis 2 (with infographic)
- 15% Listicle
- 10% peer reviews (4 x 2.5)
- 10% Figure presentation
- 20% Figures test
- 15% Final argument
- 100%
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