ALT 3&4--Ashley

Ethos--perception of speaker [author, sponsor, much broader definition]. Cybersociety 2.0: Revisiting Computer-mediated Communication and Community.. Textual Masquerade. Role-playing.
Identification--response of audience to rhetor's ethos. [Kenneth Burke has a lot more to say about this.] Delivery in oral communication = medium. Audience invoked, Audience expressed.
Textual analysis in Chapter 4.

ALT Chapters on Speaker and Text

Ashley Mays facilitating; comments here.

Flynn on "Composing as a Woman"

Lexi DeBrock facilitating; comment here.

Feminist Criticism

Mandy Belanger facilitating. Comment Here

Next Week in Dr. Rollins' Class

Those of you who are in Dr. Rollins' rhetoric class will have a double-dose of yours truly next week. I'll be speaking on "alternative rhetorics" or "discourse and diversity"--haven't decided yet. I've posted some articles on BlackBoard that you might be interested in (not required). The one I like the most, personally, is "Master's Tools." I wish I could have made a documentary instead of writing an essay about these memories. They are strong visual images for me. Have a great weekend. Dr. L

Bush Video Compilation

One of several compilations on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa3J-L29iT8
Thanks, Catherine. Food for thought in the context of the Photoshop and the Democracy chapters in Jenkins (and in terms of rhetorical ethics). [I sense that I am about to compose a midterm question.] Yet another example of how many more people can now participate; see the number of times this one has been viewed AND the number of comments on it! Dr. L

Your midterm will be "open-book."

I think I told the class about this inscription on a building at FSU, where I did my undergraduate degree. I'm grateful to a blogger named Ann who decided not to go there for graduate school, but who posted her picture of this quotation that I've remembered for 39 years. The other half of knowledge is what you have in your own memory. Dr. Lilly