76-891: Rhetorical Analysis
Students in this course will learn various approaches to analyzing discourse artifacts from a rhetorical point of view. Early in the course, students will identify an artifact or artifacts they wish to analyze. As a baseline, we will all learn how to do cohesive analysis, which is a new technique for dividing a rhetorical artifact into ¿cross-sections¿ based on similar semantic domains. From there, students will be encouraged to explore their own methods of analysis based on two required books for the course and reviews of literature. At midterm, students will be expected to hand in a polished 10 page cohesive analysis of their artifact, which will count 25% of the grade. For their final project, students will present on other analytic methods they have employed to expand their analysis and, for the final assignment, they will hand in a polished 15 page paper that describes that analysis. The presentation and final paper count 50% of the grade, with class attendance, participation, and homework making up the final 25%.
| A | TR | 03:00 pm - 04:20 pm | BH 231B | Kaufer |