Thursday, March 6, 2008

Presenters Post on Wiki

See the "Dailies" page on the Class Wiki and try posting responses and comments under chapter headings. NB: The "edit this page" button is the key to everything!

Class Wiki Just Up!

Let's experiment with a Wiki for our comments during the second half of the course. I think it will be easier to read than the separate blogs. We'll see. I'm as new to some of this as some of you are (and some of you are pros!). Dr. L

Wiki Address: http://writcult.wikispaces.com

Thursday, February 28, 2008

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.

Friday, February 22, 2008

ALT Chapters on Speaker and Text

Ashley Mays facilitating; comments here.

Flynn on "Composing as a Woman"

Lexi DeBrock facilitating; comment here.