Instructions for Cancelled Class Wed. 2/2

Due to the winter storm warning for tomorrow, I have cancelled class (as well as office hours).  Instead of meeting in the classroom, you will listen to a recorded lecture on your own time and read the assignment for your first essay.  I will give a brief quiz on the lecture in class on Friday, so take notes and pay close attention as you would in a regular lecture. 

Click here for the lecture on Rhetorical Analysis.  This is a lecture I recorded for a previous online class of a similar nature.  You only need to watch and listen to part of it.  Scroll down the contents of the lecture and click on "Slide 21."  Listen to the remaining part of the lecture.  You do not need to listen to the last slide about the quiz; you will take a quiz in class instead.  Make sure your speakers or headphones are on, as there is audio.  Please forgive any parts of the lecture that seem irrelevant to our class.  For example, I make reference to a textbook that we're not using and to previous parts of the lecture.  Don't be bothered by these details; just pay attention to the concepts of Rhetorical Analysis. 

See the post above for your Rhetorical Analysis assignment.  It would be a good idea to get started reading the three editorials you will choose from to write your Rhetorical Analysis, but you are not required to do so by Friday.  If you have questions about the assignment, we can address them in class on Friday.

You do not need to contribute to an online class discussion, as I suggested in my e-mail.  Just think about the material and be prepared for a brief quiz.  This will not be an intensive quiz, but it will ask you to demonstrate awareness of the basic concepts in the lecture on Rhetorical Analysis.

Finally, finish reading the two files called "Rhetorical Analysis 1" and "Rhetorical Analysis 2," posted on Blackboard under Course Content.  We will discuss this chapter in class on Friday.  Some of the concepts you will come across in the reading are also introduced in the recorded lecture.  The readings and the lecture are intended to supplement each other to provide a full understanding of Rhetorical Analysis and to prepare you for writing your own.

Questions?  E-mail me at ehenderson@ithaca.edu.