Getting started

Beginning with week 3, you’ll be asked to compose 2 posts on our class blog by Tuesday of each week, for a total of 22 posts. The purpose of the blog is two-fold: (1) to give you a collaborative space for thinking through and working out difficult concepts, and (2) to extend our conversations beyond the classroom into another modality. Your posts will help create and chart our landscaping of the rhetorical tradition. Your first posts are due at by noon on Tuesday, September 10. Posts are due weekly, except in those weeks when a major assignment is due (see the schedule). These posts may be some of the most challenging writing you do in this class, and they should be smartly and thoughtfully composed. You might offer informed opinions about the assigned readings, ask and answer questions, expand on issues we didn't cover in class, or you might make applications of our texts to other texts you read or encounter, You might also consider more broadly how reading the text contributes to your understanding of the goals of course or other readings in the course, putting texts in conversation with one another. In other words, don’t spend time talking about what you don’t understand; rather, work towards understanding through your engagement in composing posts. See the class site for detailed guidelines for the blog. I hope you enjoy working in this space.