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This episode provides an overview of the three artistic proofs: ethos, logos, and pathos. We define each one and talk about how they can be used to construct a piece of communication. Transcript here. Additional Resources: Silva Rhetoricae's "Persuasive Appeals"Purdue OWL's "Aristotle's Rhetorical Situation" (overlaps with rhetorical situation) and "Using Rhetorical Strategies for Persuasion"Melanie Gagich and Emilie Zickel's "Rhetorical Appeals: Logos, Pathos, and Ethos ...
This episode looks at the genre of analysis. Transcript available here. Additional Materials: Laura Bolin Carroll's "Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps Toward Rhetorical Analysis"Purdue University Fort Wayne's "How to Write an Analysis"University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center's "Summary vs. Analysis"University of Michigan's Sweetland Center for Writing's "How Can I Create Stronger Analysis"John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Discipline's "Developing Deeper Analys...
This episode focuses on the genre of argument. It discusses how to use Stephen Toulmin's model to make an argument. Transcript available here. Additional Resources: Types of argument from Purdue OWL:ClassicalToulminRogerianRebecca Jones' "Finding the Good Argument OR Why Bother with Logic?"Mark Sutton's "Warrants in an Argument" (This video discusses different kinds of warrants you can use in an argument)Harvard College Writing Center's "Counterargument"University of North Caro...
This episode focuses on the rhetorical concept of genre. Transcript available here. Additional Materials: "Genre Theory" from The Mere Rhetoric PodcastWAC Clearinghouse's "What Should I Know about Genre and Design"Anis S. Bawarshi and Mary Jo Reiff's Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and PedagogyCCC Poster Page's "Genre"Kerry Dirk's "Navigating Genres"Brad Jacobson, Madelyn Pawlowski, and Christine M. Tardy's "Make Your 'Move': Writing in Genres"Cli...
This episode discusses strategies for reading critically, an important skill for college students to possess. Transcript available here. Additional Materials: The Kenneth Burke quote I talked about in this episode. It's also called the Burkean Parlor.A selection of annotation strategies I share with my students.From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Learning Center (Note: They have multiple pages on reading strategies, some of which are specialized. I selec...
This episode discusses proofreading, the stage of writing process where we check for small errors and grammar mistakes. Episode transcript here. Additional Materials: Purdue OWL's "Finding Common Errors." I refer to this page in the episode.Purdue OWL's "Beginning Proofreading"University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center's "Proofreading" (Note: This link leads to a YouTube video.)WAC Clearinghouse's "Editing and Proofreading Strategies"Butte College's "Tipsheet:&nb...
This episode focuses on editing, the aspect of writing process in which we refine our sentences for style and clarity. Transcript available here. Additional Materials: Purdue OWL's "Concision"Purdue OWL's "Avoid Common Pitfalls." This page covers many elements that can make sentences harder to read, issues you'll want to focus on while editing.University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center's "Writing Concisely""A Demonstration of Richard Lanham's Paramedic Method."&...
This episode will discuss strategies for revision, the aspect of writing process that focuses on making major changes to a draft. Episode transcript Note: While editing this episode, I realized that I misspoke a researcher's name. I said Alex Horning when I meant Alice Horning. I apologize for the error. Additional Materials: Handouts on the revision activities discussed in the episode:Hot-spottingReverse Outlining (from the Duke University Writing Center)Cutting U...
This episode looks at the drafting part of writing process. Transcript available here. Additional Resources: A collection of drafting strategies I've shared with studentsAn example of semidraftingPurdue OWL's "Symptoms and Cures for Writer's Block" and "Other Strategies for Getting Over Writer's Block"University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center's "Writing Anxiety"MIT Global Studies and Languages' "Draft" (Note: This source is for non-native speakers of English" Co...
In this episode, we'll talk about prewriting, focusing on three strategies: freewriting, heuristics, and clustering. Transcript available through this link. Additional Resources: MIT's "The Writing Process: Freewriting"Mere Rhetoric's "Stasis Theory" (New and Improved)MIT's "The Writing Process: Idea Map/Web" (Note: This is an example of clustering, just with a different name)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's "Brainstorming"Purdue OWL's "Prewriting Questions" an...
This episode provides an overview of the concept of writing as a process. Future episodes will unpack the different stages of that process. Transcript available through this link. Additional Resources: Purdue OWL's "The Writing Process"Sarah M. Lacy and Melanie Gagich's "The Writing Process" (Note: This is a chapter from an online textbook).Wilmer Writing Center Online Writing Lab's "The Writing Process"The University of Kansas' "The Writing Process"Comparative Media Studies at...
This episode focuses on context, the element of rhetorical situation that includes the factors going on in the world that can impact our text. In particular, we'll focus on time, place, community, and culture. Transcript available through this link. Additional Resources: Purdue OWL's "Setting." "Discourse Community" from College Composition and Communication (Note: The link leads to a pdf file.)Dan Melzer's "Understanding Discourse Communities" from Writing Spaces (Note: The...
This episode focuses on the audience component of rhetorical situation. Transcript available through this link. Additional Resources: "Audience" on Silva RhetoricaeE. Shelley Reid's "Ten Ways to Think about Writing: Metaphoric Musing for College Students" in Writing Spaces, Volume 2. (Pay particular attention to section 4)Mere Rhetoric's "Audience Invoked-Audience Addressed (New and Improved)" This podcast summarizes Andrea Lunsford and Lisa Ede's article "Audience Addressed/Au...
This episode focuses on purpose, the element of rhetorical situation that defines our goals. Transcript available through this link. Additional Resources: Purdue OWL "Purposes"University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center's "Understanding the Assignment." I refer to this page in the episode, and I assign it to my students as an introduction to how to interpret an assignment sheet and determine the purpose of your text.Swathmore College's "Understanding Your Assignment" C...
This episode provides an overview of the concept rhetorical situation. We'll cover the individual elements of the situation in future episodes. Transcript available through this link. Additional Resources: Note: Some of these resources may use different terms than I used in the episode. Purdue OWL's "Elements of Rhetorical Situations"Illinois Writers Workshop "Understanding the Rhetorical Situation"WAC Clearinghouse's "What Should I Know about Rhetorical Situation?"College Composition...
This episode describes the purpose and goals of this podcast, along with my plans for how the episodes will generally run. Transcript available through this link. Additional Resources Purdue OWL: This is one of the best known and respected online resources for learning about writing and research.Writing Spaces: Writing Spaces is a series of online textbooks containing essays on different aspects of writing and research. I'm expecting in future episodes to link to specific essays...
