WEEK­­ 5: SEPTEMBER 19-SEPTEMBER 26

Reading

• WC “Rhetorical Context” (Moxley) [5 pages]
• WC “Occasion, Exigency and Kairos” [1 page]
• BIAW “Rhetoric is Synonymous with Empty Speech” (Roberts-Miller 7-12) [5 pages] [podcast, 14 minutes]
• WS1 “Navigating Genres” (Dirk 249-262) [13 pages]

Turn In

• Writer’s Journal Prompt[Blogs@Baruch]

Writer’s Journal Prompt [Blogs@Baruch]

Choose one of the following to write about this week:

1. Think of a time you had to write or compose in a new genre like Dirk
   • What was the genre or format?
   • How did you feel about the new genre before writing it?
   • What features, affordances, or constraints does the genre have?
   • How did you learn those features?
2. Roberts-Miller describes the extreme consequences of negative rhetoric or rhetoric that intentionally misleads an audience (11). Think of a time you have seen rhetoric in action. Was it positive or negative? Was it used to get at the truth or to mislead? What were the consequences?

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