Read Chapters 11 and 12 and write one blog entry that deals exclusively with terms from those chapters. Be sure to use video clips to demonstrate any new vocabulary.

Complete the second draft of your personal essay for Wednesday's Writers Workshop.

Over the weekend read Chapter 13 and write one blog entry in which you define "paradigm" in addition to other relevant terms. Try to use humor to best demonstrate your understanding of this week's lessons.

Grades

Due to a technical error in the new Skyward system your life skill grade was weighed; that has now been fixed and thus, there is a change in the overall grade for some assignments.

What's to Come

Choose from one of the following options and write a brief essay (500 words) in response:

Option #1. Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.

Option #2. Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.

Option #3. Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.

Option #4. Describe a character in fiction, a historical figure, or a creative work (as in art, music, science, etc.) that has had an influence on you, and explain that influence.

Option #5. A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.

For next Wednesday - Halloween - be sure to bring in your second draft of your personal essay.

Read Chapter 6 by Thursday. Write one blog entry.

Read Chapters 7 and 8 over the weekend. Write one blog entry for each. 

The Debate Under a Rhetorical Lense

On Monday night please watch:

Topic: Foreign policy
8-9:30 in Bogotá
Location: Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida (Tickets)
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney
Moderator: Bob Schieffer (Host of Face the Nation on CBS)

You can watch this just by googling it. There are usually many live feeds. If none of those work, use Democracy Now's webpage.

Write one blog entry in which you discuss one section of this debate in terns of pathos, logos, ethos, as well as deliberative, forensic, or demonstrative. 

All Lies and False Propaganda

This week we'll begin reading a key text for this course, for our new unit specifically on rhetoric and political debate. It's a non-fiction, non-literary text - something like an erudite and quirky textbook - so you'll need to focus on new vocabulary and make lots of connections. Embed video, photos, whatever you need to make it click.

Complete Chapter 2 and write one blog entry by Friday. Read Chapter 4 and write a blog entry this weekend. Be sure to respond to a few other blogs as well. Look at how other people are going about it. Discuss the text.

By the way, the allusion in the title is a quotation from Rocky in Rocky III.

Publishing

Please submit your revised memoirs to Guzman gjulio@cng.edu today. Be sure to attach a cover letter.

Reading for Style

While reading your memoirs this week, I'd like you to consider style - in terms of diction. How is this writer writing? How does that relate to her/his rhetorical strategy? Be sure to cite text. I'd like two completed by Friday. I expect to discuss them with you this week.