Date	Day	Topics for Discussion and Assignments Due
September 6	Wednesday	First day of class. Welcome and introductions.
September 8	Friday	Introduction to Rhetoric, Rhetoric(s), and Ideology. Pages 1-35.
September 13	Wednesday	Kairos, the Rhetorical Situation, and Exigence. Pages 36-52. Modified Versions of Exercise #2, pages 130-31 and Exercise #4, pages 33-35.
September 15	Friday	Definition as Argument. Pages 239-56.
September 20	Wednesday	Definition as Argument. Online definition readings and exercises due.
September 22	Friday	Definition as Argument, Definition Tactics. Sentence Arrangement and Logical Relations. Exercise #1, pages 255-56 (typed but in note form). Read and bring to class online definition readings.
September 27	Wednesday	Definition as Argument. Sentence Arrangement Exercise. Invention Worksheet for Paper #1 due. Have you stopped by to chat during office hours yet?
September 29	Friday	Delivery. Pages 330-52.
October 4	Wednesday	Draft Workshop. Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #1 due.
October 6	Friday	The Stases. Paper #1 due. Bring two magazines to class.
October 11	Wednesday	The Stases. Pages 53-94. Exercise #1, page 92.
October 13	Friday	The Common Topics. Pages 220-38. Exercise #2, page 237.
October 18	Wednesday	Common Topics and Commonplaces. Pages 95-132.
October 20	Friday	Stases, Common Topics, Commonplaces. Invention Exercise due. Course Evaluation.
October 25	Wednesday	Ethos and Ethical Appeals. Pages 163-204. Modified Version of Exercise #1, page 202. MLK's Letter from Birmingham City Jail. (Be sure to read the "Letter to Dr. King" on page 5 before reading King's response.)
October 27	Friday	Ethos and Ethical Appeals. Modified Version of Exercise #4, page 203.
November 1	Wednesday	Pathos and Pathetic Appeals. Pages 205-19. Modified Version of Exercise #1, page 218.
November 3	Friday	Pathos and Pathetic Appeals. Values and Beliefs Exercise.
November 8	Wednesday	Draft Workshop. Review the Issues and Strategies. Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #2 due.
November 10	Friday	What about the Opposition? Refuting, Conceding, and Bridging. Paper #2 due. Bring the online reading to class.
November 15	Wednesday	What about the Opposition? Figures of Speech. Pages 396-401. King and the Opposition Exercise due. Read and bring a copy of the online reading to class.
November 17	Friday	Style. Sentence Emphasis. Pages 278-315. Scholarship Exercise due.
November 22	Wednesday	Invention and Other Exercises for the Third Paper. Lines of Argument, Logical Fallacies. Bring your notes and drafts for the third paper to class.
November 24	Friday	No Class: Thanksgiving.
November 29	Wednesday	Arrangement. Pages 257-77. Modified Version of Exercise #2, page 277.
December 1	Friday	Style, Lines of Argument. More In-Class Exercises for the Third Paper. Modified Version of Exercise #5, page 314. Bring your notes and drafts for the third paper to class.
December 6	Wednesday	Writing Strategies and the Third Paper. Modified Version of Exercise #1, pages 276-77. Bring your notes and drafts for the third paper to class.
December 8	Friday	Draft Workshop. Two copies of a typed, completed draft of Paper #3 due.
December 13	Wednesday	Last day of class. Paper #3 due.